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2005-10-30, 07:33

Hi all,

A friend sent me a scan of a newpaper review and embedded it in a Word doc. I can see it as a picture and when I magnify the Word doc image it displays beautifully.

I want to keep the image as a jpeg or something else now - as opposed to a Word doc, because it is a pita to have to wait for Word to launch just to see this scan.

When I copy the image onto my Clipboard and then paste it into ImageWell - where I intend to convert it as just a jpeg - the text in unreadable. I have tried magnifying the picture in the Word doc and then copying that image into Image Well so I have a larger image to play with, but it does not seem to help matters.

Any advice on being able to extract this scanned image from the Word doc and being able to save it as a jpeg with "readable" text?

TIA.
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Oh - 10.3.9 and Word X (with Service Release 1)
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2005-10-30, 08:53

Dragging and dropping it from Word straight onto the desktop doesn't help?

Worst case, you could always Screen Grab it. (CMD-Shift-4 then drag box to capture).
This will make a PDF in Panther, but it should then be convertible.
You might even be able to get higher res by a series of zoomed captures stitched back together.

Crufty, but that's Word for you.
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2005-10-30, 09:25

Thanks for the help curious.

Dumbly enough, I didn't try to drag it to the desktop. Word was so slow to respond that I figured when I originally tried to drag it to ImageWell that nothing was happening - hence my reversion to the copy and paste technique straight into ImageWell instead.

So, I have dragged it to the desktop - but get this: File size of the ".pictlipping" file is 11MB! Yet, the actual Word doc was only 172kb? How does that work out?

Also, ImageWell is not taking the file either.
However, Finder is happy enough to open it, so I may as well just leave it as is.
Never heard of ".pictclipping" file format either.
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2005-10-30, 09:42

On OS X, drag+drop works for damn near everything... always the first trick I recommend... apple coders are clever and seek to anticipate non-specialist users with universal interface intuitiveness.

.pictclipping, IIRC, is short for picture clipping (a sort of clipboard export from certain apps, usually from which it can't deduce the original graphic container format). Unless it's actually at ridiculous resolution, the 11MB probably represents uncompressed size while the original 172kb file represents JPEG at max compression (or something similar, for which the container tag was lost or misinterpreted).

If you open the .pictclipping in Preview, (which is what Finder is calling), you should have the ability to "Save As". Even sticking with JPEG at max quality, I'd expect a significant filesize drop (the minimum savings with JPEG is 2x... max is nearer 100x).

Hope this helps.
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2005-10-30, 10:11

The .pictClipping file is greyed out when I look for files to open in Preview. Weird, especially if Finder is calling Preview to display it on screen in the first place.

I changed the extension to .jpg just for kicks, and copped this error message when trying to open it.
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File Error.
Couldn't open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn't recognize.
Graphic Converter to the rescue though. Saved it as a .PNG and .JPG at 100% both 1.4MB.

However, I'm still confused by how damned big in physical size this article turns out to be. (Much larger than the actual newspaper size ... yet, in the Word doc it was always newspaper size at 100%.) I'm tempted to email it to you so you can play with it and explain what is going on.

Anyway, rep points for the help. Cheers.
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