Hi,
I am using TexnicCenter and I would like to ask what is the best way to paste a picture in case the original picture taken from word file.
Currently, I copy-paste the picture from the word file to 'Paint', resize the picture and save it as .PNG format, then I use begin{figure} and includegraphics.
I wonder if it is possible to paste the picture in a better way so that the resulotion and the quality won't decrease.
Thanks
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kaiserkarl13
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Re: Picture Insertion
One suggestion would be to resize the picture in MS-Word, then copy to a graphics program (I'm assuming here that Word is decreasing the quality of the image, but that could be a mistaken assumption).
Another method, and one I'd recommend, is to take the image (in Word), put it on a page by itself, print that page to a Postscript file (make sure it's a Postscript [PS] printer driver, not a PCL driver), process the postscript file with ps2epsi or leave as-is, and import THAT into LaTeX. If you're using PDFLaTeX, use ps2epsi followed by epstopdf or use ps2pdf if the white space doesn't matter. That way, the quality you get printing from Word and the quality you get in LaTeX's output is the same. You probably aren't going to do a lot better---Word is notoriously BAD at handling graphics.
Another method, and one I'd recommend, is to take the image (in Word), put it on a page by itself, print that page to a Postscript file (make sure it's a Postscript [PS] printer driver, not a PCL driver), process the postscript file with ps2epsi or leave as-is, and import THAT into LaTeX. If you're using PDFLaTeX, use ps2epsi followed by epstopdf or use ps2pdf if the white space doesn't matter. That way, the quality you get printing from Word and the quality you get in LaTeX's output is the same. You probably aren't going to do a lot better---Word is notoriously BAD at handling graphics.