"Joel Koltner" wrote in message
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"oppie" wrote in message
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Of late, when I import any picture into a document, it appears very
fuzzy.

Have you tried Edit-Paste As... and tried the various option?

When something gets copied to the clipboard, the application that
generates it can provide as many different "formats" as it feels like --
e.g., a nice vector representation, also a bitmap representation in case
the application you're going to paste into doesn't support the vector
format, etc. (Perhaps the most common example of this is web browsers,
that normally stick both HTML and a "plain text" representation onto the
clipboard.)

Besides OO, how does it look in other programs? Can you try it in MSO on
a different machine?

Has anybody had a similar experience? My creeping paranoia tells me that
MS is crippling the older products in order to get us to migrate to
Office 2007. I have tried the demo version of office 2007 (on a different
machine) and was not terribly impressed.

For most people there isn't a whole lot past Office 97 that gets used
much. Some people do like the new "ribbon" interface of Office 2007... I
think it's OK, but kinda continues down the path of arguably making things
a bit easier for new users by making things a bit harder for experienced
users. :-(

If this just started recently, one wild guess would be that a security
updated replaced some shared library that's used to render graphics
(...you might recall the big in Microsoft's JPEG decoder that would
potentially allow arbitrary code to run!) has been updated.

---Joel



I tried both copying to the clipboard and pasting as well as inserting from
a file. Something just seems messed up.
Actually doesn't look too bad for pictures but for imports from the CAD
files (board layouts for mark-up rework instructions) and schematics, the
lines are just too fuzzy and the text is almost unreadable.
If it comes to it, I'll just have to switch over to open office. There are
some issues where the open office documents do not look exactly as designed
when opened in Office XP. Just as long as I make a PDF for the release
document, all is good between different machines/platforms.
Oppie