Image quality loss when export to Word doc

Hi Charlie,

Peter asked:

"What images are you referring to and exactly what is happening to them?

"Is it purely on screen, or is actual when printing?"

(emphasis added)

"...are not the same as the original" does not answer either of those questions. Peter rarely asks for information that will not be of use in finding an answer to the issue raised in the original post.

Would you like to try again?

Regards,

Barry

There is nothing technical about "exactly what is happening to them".

What does "the images are off" mean? They smell bad?

We can not see what you are looking at you have to tell us what you see.

You still have not told us whether you have tested this by printing your document.

Do you understand the principle of communicating an issue so that someone else who is not there can understand what it is?

Pages is not Word and Word is not Pages. Do not expect them to open each other's files as if they were. Things will change, apparently whatever this is is one of them.

Peter

At last we have something we can reply to.

Who told you? The commercial printer?

Neither your before nor your after look anywhere near good enough for commercial print. They look practically the same except I think you fiddled with it.

A commercial printer requires images that are 300dpi (dots (aka pixels) per inch) at actual size in the document. They also require the files are of commercial quality which means color balanced and adjusted to the printer's requirements.

Since you started with low resolution images and do not know what all the rest is, you are not going to fix the problem.

You can not make a silk purse from a sow's ear. Especially if you can't sew.

Either lower your expectations or hand over the job to someone who knows what they are doing and can talk to the printer. If you say the original images are low res, is that because you got them from somewhere else or you took your own happy snaps? Can you retake the photos with a better camera at a higher resolution? Because there is no other way to get decent printed results.

Peter

I am having a lot of trouble following the very little you tell us.

How can the image be both "300dpi" and "low res"?

Both your before and after files are mushy and unsuitable for print, they appear to be basically the same. You can't just take a low resolution bad photo and resave it at 300dpi. That does nothing except increase the file size whilst making the image worse by blurring it a bit more.

Can you tell us what the origin of the images was, what format it is, what physical and file size they are and what you did to it?

There is nothing to turn off because I doubt Pages did anything to your image, unless it was in an oddball format which you are not telling us about.

Also why are you taking Pages' files, converting them to an older Word file format to print to a commercial printer?

That is not how you prep files for commercial printing, which I tried to explain to you.

Peter

It sounds like you inserted the photo while working on document in Pages. And then, you exported it to a Word document. My suggestion is to export into PDF (selecting "Best" under image quality) instead and send this file to the printer's.

In my experience, I always send PDFs to printers because this ensures that no quality is lost that I do not intend.

Your post disappeared so I posted a new thread in the Forum, hopefully answering your questions, even though you have not answered ours.

To the O.P asking about image altering on export to .doc

Peter

What images are you referring to and exactly what is happening to them?

Is it purely on screen, or is actual when printing?

Peter

please, just answer the questions.

You have not shown or told us anything we can use to resolve whatever your problem is.

Not much we can do if you refuse to clarify your problem.

Peter