danf@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dante Fabrizio) (08/23/90)
Why does Word change the size of a drawing made with PaintBrush when I paste it in a document? Once the drawing is in a document, you can scale the picture but it never looks the same as it did in Paintbrush. I have tried changing the clipboard to cut and paste bitmaps but it didn't help. Is there a way to get the exact picture to be pasted in Word? I thought this was a wysiwyg enviorment! Dante Fabrizio Commdore Business Machines 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa. 19380 215 - 431 - 9100 EXT 9347
kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES) (08/26/90)
In article <13967@cbmvax.commodore.com> danf@cbmvax.UUCP (Dante Fabrizio) writes: >Why does Word change the size of a drawing made with PaintBrush when I >paste it in a document? Once the drawing is in a document, you can >scale the picture but it never looks the same as it did in Paintbrush. > >Commdore Business Machines >1200 Wilson Drive >West Chester, Pa. 19380 >215 - 431 - 9100 EXT 9347 Are you pasting color images or black & white images? If this is happening with b/w images then it is news. If it is color images then you have a version of WinWord that doesn't paste color images properly. Here is a brief synopsis of the problem: Bitmaps can have physical dimension information associated with them. Paintbrush inserts this physical information into bitmaps it puts on the clipboard WinWord takes the bitmap off the clipboard and looks at the format If b/w then it takes the original bitmap off the clipboard and keeps it - the dimension information is intact. If color then it makes a b/w version and throws away the color version - the bug is WinWord forgets to copy the dimension information over. WinWord uses the dimension information to scale the image on the screen. Try pasting in a b/w image and see if it works. Ken Sykes Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.