[John]

Problem: What is compress actually doing?



Word 2007

XP Pro SP2



If you compress the images in a DOC file using Format Pictures... | Picture tab | Compress button, the following happens:

The file becomes smaller.

The printed page looks the same.

The screen image looks the same.



What actually changed?

Is it the Resolution in DPI?

Is it the Dimension in Pixels?



Changing the Resolution in DPI should only change the physical size of how something prints. It does not change the number of pixels in the image itself.



Changing the Dimension in Pixels would cut off part of the image, or

it could do an algorithmic shrink where there are less Dimension in Pixels so you see the same image but using fewer Dimension in Pixels. I appreciate your feedback.