Save Word doc as jpg? as tif?

George · External Since: Sep 28, 2003 Posts: 124

I'm using Word2003 and want to take a snapshot of some pages.

Can't use print screen, it's too rough and captures all the menus and
everything else...I just want an "image" of a page so I can paste it in
somewhere else... like "Exhibit A". But it needs to be fairly ok
resolution, if its 72 dpi or ends up maybe 100KB, that will be way to
low-res. Need something printable, good.

For a single page, is there any way to "save as" a jpg, or tif image?

Is there a way to "print" to a flat file like this?

Thanks,
George

Wilfried Hennings · External Since: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 31

"George" <air1.DeleteThis@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I'm using Word2003 and want to take a snapshot of some pages.
>
> Can't use print screen, it's too rough and captures all the menus and
> everything else...I just want an "image" of a page so I can paste it in
> somewhere else... like "Exhibit A". But it needs to be fairly ok
> resolution, if its 72 dpi or ends up maybe 100KB, that will be way to
> low-res. Need something printable, good.
>
> For a single page, is there any way to "save as" a jpg, or tif image?

If monochrome black&white is sufficient, you can use the printer driver
called "MS Document Image Writer" that comes with Office 2003.
Print to this (virtual) printer, but in printer properties - extended
choose tif format instead of the MDI format; however it only supports
b&w tif.
Although the MDI format supports color and the MDI viewer allows to
export to tif, the generated tif could not be opened by IrfanView. Maybe
you have more luck than I.

If you need color, install a postscript printer driver (e.g. Apple Color
LaserWriter) and connect it to FILE: (use the "add printer" wizard).
In printer properties - postscript, choose archive format or eps.
Print your document to this printer and specify a filename with ps or
eps extension.
Install AFPL Ghostscript & Ghostview from http://www.ghostscript.com/
Open the .ps or .eps file with Ghostview, choose File - Convert and
choose the bitmap format which you need.

Hope this helps.

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George · External Since: Sep 28, 2003 Posts: 124

Thanks Wilfried, the "print to 'MS Document Image Writer' " method works
great, here's deal...

PRINT TO MS DOCUMENT IMAGE WRITER
I chose 300 dpi TIFF as the output, and printed my one-page Word document to
the image writer. The resulting filename.tif is extremely sharp. Oddly,
the filesize is also relatively small (75KB) too, vs. some other tif methods
like using a scanner that came in at 1MB/page). It does covert to B&W, but
I wanted that anyway, especially since most of what I'm imaging is text
anyway.

I then inserted this snapshot.tif as an image into a Word document. Then I
made a pdf out of that...and it remained very sharp too. Other methods fell
apart in the pdf-making process and became slightly grainy with the look of
an old dot-matrix printer.

So this method is great

PRINT TO POSTSCRIPT
Couldn't get this to work, unsure if have right driver.

I do have full Adobe Acrobat installed, and it installs a printer called
"Adobe pdf"...so that's what I chose.

If you select 'print to file'...your only option is filename.prn (not a
graphic image format, I don't think). If you don't select 'print to file",
then your only option is filename.pdf (by the way, this can later be
converted to a tif inside Acrobat, but it's a roundabout way)

It may be that this is simply the wrong driver to get the direct option of
creating an eps (a graphic format, that could be used immediately), and if
the Apple Color Laserwriter were chosen, then the choices of eps and others
would come up, right?

Anyway,
thanks again, the Image Writer works outstanding

Wilfried Hennings · External Since: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 31

Hello,

"George" <air1.TakeThisOut@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Thanks Wilfried, the "print to 'MS Document Image Writer' " method works
> great, here's deal...
> [...]
>
> PRINT TO POSTSCRIPT
> Couldn't get this to work, unsure if have right driver.
>
> I do have full Adobe Acrobat installed, and it installs a printer called
> "Adobe pdf"...so that's what I chose.

This driver creates pdf. PostScript is created only as an intermediate
(temporary) file which is deleted after successful creation of the pdf
file.

> It may be that this is simply the wrong driver to get the direct option of
> creating an eps (a graphic format, that could be used immediately), and if
> the Apple Color Laserwriter were chosen, then the choices of eps and others
> would come up, right?

Yes.
The Apple LaserWriter driver comes with Windows XP, so you can just use
the add printer wizard, choose Apple, choose Color LaserWriter, choose
FILE: as the printer port, and so on.

> If you select 'print to file'...your only option is filename.prn ...

That happens in some windows installations (I don't know under which
conditions) also if one uses the Apple Laserwriter driver connected to
FILE:. Windows then thinks it is smarter than the user and knows better
how to name the file, but acutally it is dumb. If this happens, just
rename the generated file to .ps or .eps, this will do.
Or enclose the "filename.ps" in double quotation marks, this will
prevent the addition of ".prn" (hopefully).

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