Images exploded in Word output

[todd.richardson]

Hello,

When we output to print, we always use the PDF format. All of our resources for print output (Page Layouts, etc.) are specific to that format. We recently tried to output a document to Word (someone requested a specification in that format), and found that all of the images in the output were enormous (examples below). Output to Word was done ad hoc, and no new resources were created to facilitate it, aside from a new target.

Examples:






Any idea why this would happen? I'm guessing there are intricacies to Word output that we don't yet understand, as we use that format so seldom.

Thanks.

[forfear]

Hi Todd,
what is the medium you set your Word target to? is it print?

The explosion of images (what a title !) is caused due to
- images were saved with a different DPI set. Most times its 96 dpi. but sometimes its saves with a dpi of 150 or 300 depending on the application settings used in the screen capture tool.
DPI has more to do with print mediums that online viewing.

Select the images that have explosions, (CTRL+ ALT + B) and explicitly set the max width for the images.

i assume this is not occurring for all the images, only the ones you showed

[todd.richardson]

Yes, the medium is set to Print. This occurs for all images in the document. I haven't checked the DPI - that may be the culprit.

Thanks for the reply.

[LTinker68]

You could set the max-width property on the img tag in the print medium to 5in or 6in or whatever. Don't set the max-width and the max-height, just set the max-width; the height will adjust accordingly.

[forfear]

I am not very good typing with a small notebook.
The number of errors I am making in each of my posts these days is ridiculous. Apologies on the immense amount of typos. For a technical writer these are fundamental no-nos.