Compress Pictures

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In any Office application (on my PC at least), 'Compress Pictures' is the
default setting for pictures. How can I set this to default to uncompressed?
I would have expected uncompressed to have been the default.
 
Gummo said:
In any Office application (on my PC at least), 'Compress Pictures' is the
default setting for pictures. How can I set this to default to uncompressed?
I would have expected uncompressed to have been the default.
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"Compress pictures" is the default setting where? I'm not sure what
you're talking about, and I suspect others aren't, either, or you would
probably already have received a response.
 
This is what prompted my confusion:

I wanted to print a high-quality jpg using Powerpoint. When it finished
printing, I noticed a drastic drop in quality in the print with blockiness
easily visible. I right-clicked on the jpg in Powerpoint and selected
Format Picture. I then clicked on Compress and noticed that Compress
Pictures was checked. I unchecked it and reprinted the picture which
printed perfectly. This led to my impression that picture compression was
the default setting whenever pictures were inserted into a Powerpoint slide.
I'll admit to being confused as to how to use this control but I think it
has been clumsily formulated by Microsoft.

Gummo
 
Ahhhhh, now I understand what you're talking about! Thanks for
clarifying.

The compress pictures option should only take effect if you actually opt
to compress images. At least, that's the way I always assumed it works.
I suspect it's checked by default because MS figured if anyone was
clicking on the Compress button on the Format/Picture dialog (or on the
icon for it on the Picture toolbar), they'd probably want to compress
the images.

It's interesting because, even if you deselect that option, the next
time you check Compress Pictures, the compress and crop options are
selected again.

So I guess the upshot is that I don't think that *should* affect the way
your JPG printed, but it sure is a strange coincidence, and I can't come
up with any other reason the JPG would print badly once and fine the
next time.

Anybody else have any ideas?
 
It looks, as you say, that the design is to click on Compress if you want to
compress - the untidy bit being: why is it always checked? But the big
question for me is: why did the quality deteriorate after inserting the
image into a new document? At the end of the day, I have not been able to
duplicate the incident and the whole thing may be the result of a conflict
on the PC at that session.

Gummo

Echo S said:
Ahhhhh, now I understand what you're talking about! Thanks for
clarifying.

The compress pictures option should only take effect if you actually opt
to compress images. At least, that's the way I always assumed it works.
I suspect it's checked by default because MS figured if anyone was
clicking on the Compress button on the Format/Picture dialog (or on the
icon for it on the Picture toolbar), they'd probably want to compress
the images.

It's interesting because, even if you deselect that option, the next
time you check Compress Pictures, the compress and crop options are
selected again.

So I guess the upshot is that I don't think that *should* affect the way
your JPG printed, but it sure is a strange coincidence, and I can't come
up with any other reason the JPG would print badly once and fine the
next time.

Anybody else have any ideas?

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
This is what prompted my confusion:

I wanted to print a high-quality jpg using Powerpoint. When it finished
printing, I noticed a drastic drop in quality in the print with blockiness
easily visible. I right-clicked on the jpg in Powerpoint and selected
Format Picture. I then clicked on Compress and noticed that Compress
Pictures was checked. I unchecked it and reprinted the picture which
printed perfectly. This led to my impression that picture compression was
the default setting whenever pictures were inserted into a Powerpoint slide.
I'll admit to being confused as to how to use this control but I think it
has been clumsily formulated by Microsoft.

Gummo

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No idea why that would have happened with your quality deterioration,
Gummo. It's not ever happened here, though.

Echo
 
OK Echo - thanks for the help.

Gummo

Echo S said:
No idea why that would have happened with your quality deterioration,
Gummo. It's not ever happened here, though.

Echo
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