Word for Mac: Getting pics back into JPEG files

[AHunter3]

Omphaloskeptic;

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. It copies it as a BMP (Windows bitmap format), at screen resolution and 256 colors. (This is as opposed to copying it in internal JPEG format at 24-bit color depth.) My point was that the resampling happens at the time of the copy-to-clipboard operation; the Word .doc file still contains the raw JPEG information in recoverable form.

Not on a Mac it doesn’t. “.bmp” format is not used on a Mac for anything, and the contents of the clipboard are never dithered to 256 colors. Copy a 32-bit image and past it elsewhere and you get a 32-bit image where you paste. The Mac clipboard uses: (MacOS 9, 8, 7, etc): PICT format or (MacOS X): PDF format as its/their native format, and it’s all a 32 bit world. Come to think of it, in this day and age I’d be astonished if Windows really dithers clipboard copies to 256 color bitmaps. That’s so windows-3.1ish. I’m not a Windows geek and will accept correction from Windows users, but it seems sufficiently unlikely that I have to ask: cite?

[Reply]

That’s so windows-3.1ish. I’m not a Windows geek and will accept correction from Windows users, but it seems sufficiently unlikely that I have to ask: cite?

Interestingly, Word does seem to do this. IE and most other Windows apps I’ve seen do not, but Word does…

[Omphaloskeptic]

@AHunter3

Omphaloskeptic;

Not on a Mac it doesn’t. “.bmp” format is not used on a Mac for anything, and the contents of the clipboard are never dithered to 256 colors. Copy a 32-bit image and past it elsewhere and you get a 32-bit image where you paste. The Mac clipboard uses: (MacOS 9, 8, 7, etc): PICT format or (MacOS X): PDF format as its/their native format, and it’s all a 32 bit world. Come to think of it, in this day and age I’d be astonished if Windows really dithers clipboard copies to 256 color bitmaps. That’s so windows-3.1ish. I’m not a Windows geek and will accept correction from Windows users, but it seems sufficiently unlikely that I have to ask: cite?

As Reply says, it really does do this on Windows. You’re right about the Mac part though; I’d forgotten he was using a Mac.

[Musicat]

@AHunter3

Come to think of it, in this day and age I’d be astonished if Windows really dithers clipboard copies to 256 color bitmaps. That’s so windows-3.1ish. I’m not a Windows geek and will accept correction from Windows users, but it seems sufficiently unlikely that I have to ask: cite?

Consider yourself astonished, then. On my Win 98, with Word 2000, copying a JPG image from a DOC file to the clipboard, then pasting into a new 24-bit color file in Corel PhotoPaint 7 creates a “palleted” 256-color file, which few other application programs do. It looks fugly. Cite? I just tried it again, and it did it again. I cannot vouch for other operating systems or Word versions.

[AHunter3]

Microsoft Weird.

I never did like that word processor.