Images in MS Word

I am having my usual annoyance as I prepare my Christmas family newsletter, liberally illustrated with photos inserted into a Word (Office 2008) document. These are JPEG images, ex Photoshop with embedded profiles but many suffer an extreme colour variation on being embedded in the

Re: Images in MS Word

Hi Severin, Don't bother with embedded profiles if you are importing into Word...it does its own thing. One possible strategy is to Export for Web in Photoshop. This tends to push things to lowest common denominator (e.g., sRGB), and also allows Mac vs Windows preview. When I do this, I don't

Re: Images in MS Word

Thanks, James Severin On 14/12/2009, at 4:33 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Severin, Don't bother with embedded profiles if you are importing into Word...it does its own thing. One possible strategy is to Export for Web in Photoshop. This tends to push things to lowest common denominator

Re: Images in MS Word

Severin, This may have some help for you: http://www.freelists.org/post/austechwriter/atw-Re-Managing-images-in-MS-Word,1 Bill On 14/12/2009, at 4:18 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am having my usual annoyance as I prepare my Christmas family newsletter, liberally illustrated with photos

Re: Images in MS Word

Hello Severin I have been helping my wife with her family history which includes many many pictures. We did the text in Word, but once I started to try to embed the pix I came up against Word. Word, embedded pictures!! Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! So I tried Pages. It is fantastic. Try it and

Opix FS170 handheld scanners

This afternoon I saw a pile of Opix FS170 handheld scanners for 35mm negatives and slides in Officeworks for about $139. They have a small screen, an internal memory and a SD card slot for transferring scanned images. Have any list members tried these? I'd like to know what sort of quality

Re: Opix FS170 handheld scanners

Sorry, I think the brand is Qpix - Original Message - From: Paul Weaver pwea...@westnet.com.au To: WAMUG list wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, 14 December, 2009 5:42:49 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Opix FS170 handheld scanners This afternoon I saw a

Images in MS Word

Many thanks for the various suggestions regarding pictures in Word. My issue is not with the embedding, I can handle that, but with the colour change. More or less sorted, I think! Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R

Re: Images in MS Word

Hi Severin Pages does it for me too. Regards Dave On 14/12/2009, at 5:28 PM, David Nicholas wrote: Hello Severin I have been helping my wife with her family history which includes many many pictures. We did the text in Word, but once I started to try to embed the pix I came up

[OT] Job Seeker

Hi all, I know that this is very off topic, but with the network of people on this list, I thought that there might be a contact or a connection somewhere. A friend of mine was just made redundant (and right before Christmas, too). He is a computer guy, and he describes what he does as

Var file

Hi all, I just recently upgraded to new macbook and in migrating the content across I have a folder called var (from old mac) which has about 775 mg of system looking folders. It is safe to delete this? Many thanks in advance. Best regards Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au

Re: HP LaserJet 5MP printer and OS X 10.6.2

Hi All -- -- I'm still struggling to find a way to print on an HP Laserjet 5MP from my Intel iMac, recently upgraded to 10.6.2. The printer connects via ethernet into my Belkin iiNet router, as does my Intel iMac. I've tried a slew of different drivers, including those built into Snow Leopard,

Re: Var file

Hi Justin, Is it /var/root/ in a folder called Library (from old Mac)? Normally nothing in /var/root is necessary and this folder can be safely deleted, if you don't use the following. There actually IS something in /var/root/library which is sort of important. For some strange reason