I am having to copy and paste a graphic from MS Word 08 and place it into Photoshop CS3. It imports as Vector Smart Object and is very blurry. I have done this with MS Word 04 to CS2 with no problems. I searched the forum but did not see any solutions. Any ideas. Thanks
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A photo which was placed into a word document. I can write a pdf from word and then open that in Photoshop and it has the correct resolution. If I cut and paste directly into Photoshop the paste is very blurry.
Is it possible that the image in the Word Doc is a low rez placeholder which references an original stored somewhere else? That could explain why a PDF save is proper (it incorporates the original image in distilling the PDF) but a copy/paste isn’t (you’re just getting the placeholder).
The new Word 2008 for Mac makes use of placeholders in the Publishing Layout mode for sure, Neil. It just depends on how Roger is using it. I’ve got Word 2008 on a MacBook Pro but normally I just use Pages so I’m not very knowledgeable about the app.
Although I have Office 2008 on my system, I don’t use it for "publishing". But it does make sense that they now follow the convention of XPress and InDesign with the use of placeholders.
(Of course we can see prepress departments, printers and service bureaus around the world finally running out to embrace Word….) <g>
Create a PDF from the print menu using the Acrobat 7.0. or 8.0 driver or distill postscript to a PDF. The Clipboard copy paste feature is giving you garbage out of MS.
Since these files are being sent to me I need to have them send along the original photo files as well as the Word doc. I’m no fan of word or Publisher but I have to work with what is supplied. The pdf seems to work somewhat better than the copy/paste. Thanks for all the replies. Roger
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