Seems like it might work, but being that I don't use paint or what not can't you scale it up from there, then save the whole thing as a PDF? Again I don't use paint so dunno if I'm barking up the wrong gtree.
good luck and if you can get this to work in office 2010 I'll be surprised. I miss the days of office 2003. Ah well. Tc. On Dec 29, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David > To be utterly honest with you, I've come to expect that level of obnoxious > behaviour from Dane recently. One has to woner if, as he claims, he has no > time for email these days, why on earth he bothered to create such a > ridiculous, not to mention unhelpful response. I think that his claims of > being too busy are nothing more than wishful thinking, and his spiteful > comments are noshing more than an expression of his own inadequacy and > jealousy of those of us who do have lives outside of the house. Then again, > he's probably too busy trying to decide which radio to listen too today! > Sorry, I just couldn't help myself! > Now, regarding the original topic of discussion, as it would have been a > waste of electrons to dedicate an entire post to the sorrowful life and times > of mr. Trethowan. I have a theory which just might solve the problem. It > may not work, ohr then again, it just might! I have some of the pages which > my boss requires already scanned as JPEG pictures. So, here's the plan and I > welcome your comment on whether you think this might work. I plan to try > copying the contents of the image into the clipboard by opening the image in > something like the default Windows viewer. I will copy the clipboard > contents into word, and just scale the whole thing up to twice the size, see > what happent when I do a printer dump. Any thoughts welcome, (as long as > they're nothing to do with selling jellybeans)! > Kind Regards > Gordon Smith > Information Technology Accessibility consultant > Providing Support For Young People Living With Sight Loss: Advice On > Accessible Information Technologies And Braille Transcription Services. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Griffith" <[email protected] > To: "'Windows Access; Share Your Enthusiasm!'" <[email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:32:24 -0000 > Subject: RE: Importing Images Into Microsoft Word 2010 > > This seems a childish response for a technology list. > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan > Sent: 26 December 2013 13:33 > To: Windows Access; Share Your Enthusiasm! > Subject: Re: Importing Images Into Microsoft Word 2010 > > Your livelyhood depends on this and nothing's working? Oh dear, perhaps its > time to try something else, howabout selling jellybeans or something like > that. > > On 26 Dec 2013, at 10:27 pm, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not quite sure whether I tried that or not, to tell you the truth. > I've tried so many darn ways to get this thing to work that I'm about out of > options and, I'm sorry to say, out of patience. I just want something which > works and, were it not for the fact that I do Braille transcription > professionally now, so my livelihood depends upon it, I wouldn't be using > Office at all. > > Be that as it may, I need to produce some large print versions of the > books I'm working on for my boss. We can get the text blown up just fine. > But the images don't get enlarged and it looks really bad so says Lynne and > so says my boss. My boss, Jill, knows it isn't my fault that it's like it > is. But nobody else at work has s clue in terms of anything over and beyond > their day-to-day work and that's why I am employed where I am. > > Anyway, to get back to the point. Lynne says she's tried this but the > problem is as I say, the text is scaled up but not the boxes which contain > pictures to illustrate the stories in the books. To have double-sized text > but small pictures looks apparently really odd and it doesn't help those > children whose vision impairment is sufficient to allow them access to large > print, but not small pictures as well. > > The picture illustrations are important as a teaching aid, as it helps the > children to remember details about the stories we are trying to get them to > learn from. > > Actually this brings up another topic but not for this group. I'm going > to be starting a thread on education, the way it is delivered. I have to > admit that I've changed my views on this subject since I began working with > young children directly. it took ages for my DBS check to come through but > now it has and in the second half of last term I learned a lot. > > Anyway, to answer your question, yes, we have tried that. But apparently > although we can import the pictures, that doesn't help to enlarge them. If > we enlarge the text, that's fine. But the pictures themselves don't get > blown up as well. > > I can't quite fathom that one, I must admit. I would have thought that, > if you blow up an entire image to double size, then the entire image, > including the pictures, should get blown up as well. I'll try this one > again but at the moment I'm not hopeful. > > Kind regards > > <--- Gordon Smith --- > > <[email protected] > > Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; > Providing Help & Support To Young People LivingWith Visual Impairment, > plus Braille Transcription services. > > On 15 Dec 2013, at 02:31, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you tried the Insert Picture option from the ribbon? > > This is just a hunch, I bought Office Professional 2010 though I don't > know why I bothered, it works well and I've nothing against the product > whatever but I just don't use the thing. > > > ======================================= > > To post to this group, please send your message to: > [email protected] > The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, > virus and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise > subscriber options page, located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum > at either of the following websites: > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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