Using MS Publisher to create a website.

Factual Questions
1

I’m using Publisher to create a family website and it does some odd things with pictures.

If I resize a .jpg in a photo editor to a width of, say, 100 pixels; when I paste it into Publisher it is wider than 100 pixels. I have to resize pictures to 75 pixels in the editor if I want them to end up as 100 in Publisher. Also, the photo’s end up looking a bit blury, as though Publisher is automatically enlarging them.

Anyone know what’s going on here?

2

Publisher’s probably resizing the picture to a size it likes better (I don’t know how it determines that size). But did you try clicking the “Reset Picture” button on the picture toolbar? That might restore the picture to its “true” size.

3

I have barely used Publisher but haven’t noticed this behavior. Judging by your description I would agree that it is scaling it up. I can only think of two possibilties. One possibility is not likely if you are seeing this behavior only in Publisher. The possibility is that you have scaled your DPI in the Windows Display (Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings, Advanced). But that would affect all applications (except for Firefox, AFAIK).

I would check the HTML code generated by Publisher. If you are an HTML developer you will absolutely hate the sight of it. But look for the IMG tag and see if it specifies size attributes. If not it should default to the actual size. But if size is specified, then it will scale to match it in most browsers. Some web tools put in the size even if iit’s the same size as the image; maybe Publisher is is trying to do this but determining the size wrong. If that’s the case I don’t know why that would happen.

4

My only previous (limited) experience with website developing was using html directly so, yes, the source code from Publisher does look a bit ugly.

Having published the website to my hard-drive I have noticed that Publisher has created a copy of each picture. So in the “index-files” folder there are all my original photos plus copies which appear to be the enlarged ones that Publisher is displaying. The interesting thing is that the enlarged ones are a LOT smaller in file size than the originals.

Example:

image381.jpg (original)
dimensions: 75x100
size: 60.5KB

image3811.jpg (Publisher created copy)
dimensions: 100x133
size: 3.24KB

The original photos also have extra data attached such as the type of camera used, the date, time etc. I’m wondering if Publisher doesn’t like having this extra data present and is recreating cut-down versions of the photos to eliminate it.