Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!rcstfdb From: rcstfdb@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Frank WGM de Bruyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: MS Word & reduced pictures Message-ID: <829@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> Date: 9 Aug 89 17:21:58 GMT Organization: Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Holland Lines: 25 PROBLEM: Imported draw graphics (PICT) will show alignment errors when reduced (e.g. 60 percent) within MS Word (both vs. 3.x and 4.0). The problem does not occurr at all reduction percentages and not for all figures: If I add something to a problem figure (eg a rectangle), which makes the bounding box around the entire figure bigger, and cut-paste-reduce the new figure, then the problem sometimes disappears. This seems to indicate some sort of round off error; on a 72 DPI Mac screen I can understand that, but 300 DPI laserwriter output has the same problem. It appears MS Word is to blame because, -1- Graphics was drawn using a course grid, which makes absolutely sure the ends of lines are exactly on the same coordinates (MacDraw) -2- Printing the graphics at the same reduction percentage from MacDraw, or from a desktop publisher (PICT import) will result in correctly alligned output QUESTIONS: -Q1- Has anyone else experienced this problem? -Q2- Solution? -Q3- Work-around? -Q4- Explanation why this problem occurrs? Frank de Bruyn, UUCP: rcstfdb@eutrc3.nl the Netherlands ARPA: mcvax!eutrc3!rcstfdb@uunet.uu.net