[macropod]

Hi livetohike,

Seems like the same graphic on the same monitor should
display identically, but I think what you are saying is that the
application doing the displaying can have an affect as well even
if the graphic stored within the documents is bit for bit identical.

Correct, but the image also has to be displayed at exactly the same size too.

I still don't understand when you say Word 'scales' the image. Why
does it scale it? Seems like it should maintain the original size.

Word scales the image the fit the space you've given it. If you've got a 3000*2000 pixel image, and you give it a 9*6cm size in
Word, then Word has to scale the image to that (ie 333.33 pixels/cm). And then, on top of that, you'll display the image at some
degree of magnification on-screen (eg page width or 100%) using a monitor whose resolution is nothing like that of the image.

I pasted a small gif from Photoshop to Word and then back again (from
Word to Photo) and the image definitely changed, so I still think Word
is changing the image itself, not just the way it displays it.

That's probably because, when you paste a GIF image into Word, Word converts it to jpg or png (I can't remember which). If you
pasted the image into Word as a link instead, that conversion wouldn't take place - Word would simply reference the image on disk
for display & printing purposes. Of course, if you copy the image displayed on screen (regardless of which method you've used to
insert the image into Word), that's what you'll get - the on-screen representation, not the original.

Cheers
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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
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