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scale of items inserted from scanner
when I insert items into a word document from my scanner the scale is
corrupted such that when I print the item it is only about 80% of the full size. What can I do to correct this problem? The item appears to be full size on the monitor screen but when you look at the scale at the top of the screen it it apparent that the scale is way off. In other words the scale is larger on the top of the screen than actual size in inches. For example 4 inches on the scale measures about 6 acrual inches. HELP |
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Onscreen dimensions in Word are dependent on your Zoom setting and are not
meant to be representative. The only way to establish the size at which a graphic will print is to check the dimensions on the Size tab of Format Picture. By default in recent versions of Word, graphics are inserted In Line With Text. This means that they will be inserted at 100% unless they are wider than the margin width, in which case they will be reduced to fit between the margins. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dick H." Dick wrote in message ... when I insert items into a word document from my scanner the scale is corrupted such that when I print the item it is only about 80% of the full size. What can I do to correct this problem? The item appears to be full size on the monitor screen but when you look at the scale at the top of the screen it it apparent that the scale is way off. In other words the scale is larger on the top of the screen than actual size in inches. For example 4 inches on the scale measures about 6 acrual inches. HELP |
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I looked at that and it seems no matter what size the original is, all images
scanned to my word documents are reduced by about 1/3. And the size that is indicated by the ruler at the top of the window represents the true size of the printed copies. I feel it may be a conflict between my HP psc 950 and Win XP/Office 2003. We can copy full scale to the printer but not to insert in the word documents. I used an image that was only 2.75" wide x 5" deep and it came back at 2 1/4"wide X 4 1/4" deep. And those were the actual dimensions shown on the ruler at the top of the Word document when the item was inserted. However that ruler is way out of scale. HELP!!! P.S. Thanks for trying Suzanne!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Onscreen dimensions in Word are dependent on your Zoom setting and are not meant to be representative. The only way to establish the size at which a graphic will print is to check the dimensions on the Size tab of Format Picture. By default in recent versions of Word, graphics are inserted In Line With Text. This means that they will be inserted at 100% unless they are wider than the margin width, in which case they will be reduced to fit between the margins. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dick H." Dick wrote in message ... when I insert items into a word document from my scanner the scale is corrupted such that when I print the item it is only about 80% of the full size. What can I do to correct this problem? The item appears to be full size on the monitor screen but when you look at the scale at the top of the screen it it apparent that the scale is way off. In other words the scale is larger on the top of the screen than actual size in inches. For example 4 inches on the scale measures about 6 acrual inches. HELP |
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"I used an image that was only 2.75" wide x 5" deep and it came back at 2
1/4"wide X 4 1/4" deep. And those were the actual dimensions shown on the ruler at the top of the Word document when the item was inserted. However that ruler is way out of scale. HELP!!! " Are you referring to measurements taken off your computer screen or measurements taken from a printed document? Images and their print size are measured in pixels. 80 pixels used to be a gauge for approximately one inch. With today's larger screens, that one-inch pixel size has changed, all dependent upon the display resolution your screen is set up to display. (I've seen some newer references for 86 pixels.) Some suggestions: 1) Size your image your image (with a non-Word) graphics software to fit within the parameters of your Word layout [width and height]. It would surprise me if your able to use anything larger than 400 X 400 pixels effectively! 2) Than insert the previously saved image into Word. |
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Thank you for your help. You got us thinking about the size of the space in our normal view in Word. We had it set with large margins both on the sides and top and bottom.Therefore there was only 5" width and about 8" of height available for the image to be inserted into .. Since we have changed the page layout of our Normal View to maxamize the space available for images, we are no longer having a problem with all inserted images being scaled down from the size of the original image placed on the scanner. In other words the size of the copy we get is nearly identical to the size of the original which is what we desire in most cases. Thank you for leading us to the problem. Sincerely Richard B. & Mary E. Hyde "lostinspace" wrote: "I used an image that was only 2.75" wide x 5" deep and it came back at 2 1/4"wide X 4 1/4" deep. And those were the actual dimensions shown on the ruler at the top of the Word document when the item was inserted. However that ruler is way out of scale. HELP!!! " Are you referring to measurements taken off your computer screen or measurements taken from a printed document? Images and their print size are measured in pixels. 80 pixels used to be a gauge for approximately one inch. With today's larger screens, that one-inch pixel size has changed, all dependent upon the display resolution your screen is set up to display. (I've seen some newer references for 86 pixels.) Some suggestions: 1) Size your image your image (with a non-Word) graphics software to fit within the parameters of your Word layout [width and height]. It would surprise me if your able to use anything larger than 400 X 400 pixels effectively! 2) Than insert the previously saved image into Word. |
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