[Graham Mayor]

You could send the pdf to the link on my web site and I will have a look at
it?

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Heather C. wrote:
I hear you in your suggestion of recreating the cover in Word. A
designer already created a really nice looking cover sheet for me, so
it would be great to use it. Obviously, he works in the Mac world and
I, in Windows so it be laborious for him to send all the elements for
recreation on my end (and I am not sure I could do it justice).

His pdf is currently sized at 256kb. Would changing the size help the
situation? Your continued help is appreciated.

Heather

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

It depends what the objective is. If this is as suggested a cover
page - then recreate the cover page in Word. If you are inserting
PDF files with a document for reference, then print the PDFs
directly from Acrobat or Adobe reader and attach them. Inserted PDF
files are always going to be something of a compromise. The whole
point of PDF is that it is not an editable format but a stand-alone
graphical representation of a document.

Did you check the inserted size of the object?

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Heather C. wrote:
So you're saying that inserting a pdf into a document is not
recommended. What's the alternative?
Heather

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

PDF is a graphic format - unless you insert it at 100% size there
will be artefacts due to the shrinkage. Word will cause inserted
objects to shrink to the current margins.

Inserting PDF files *is* poor and unprofessional.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Heather C. wrote:
When I insert a pdf into a Word doc (the cover page, in this
case), it is not pretty. The quality looks poor and
unprofessional.

Any ideas on how to overcome this?

Thank you.