I'm a graphic designer and I normally work in Creative Suite, but a lot of the work I am asked to do will need to be edited by others who don't know CS, so I build them in Word.
So I created a mission statement with the 2 company logos at the top. The graphics for the logos were originally created in Illustrator, but I brought them into Photoshop to re-save them in TIFF format. But our president complains that they look blurry and/or bitmappy when he looks at them in Word.


I researched it, and found on Microsoft's site that Word automatically compresses graphics when you save it. It said I could fix it, but I have to replace the graphics and re-save it while changing the compression settings.
So, before I replaced the graphics, I tried to be sure to make them the exact size that I need them to be in Illustrator. The space I want them to fit in is 1.25" deep, so I made sure I saved them in Illustrator in that size, saved them as PDFs, then opened the PDFs in Photoshop and re-saved them as 300 dpi TIFFs.
When I brought the first logo into Word it was about half the size I wanted!
Does Word automatically shrink graphics? How can I stop it from doing that? If I have to enlarge the logo, I'm afraid the quality will drop.

Word doesn't automatically 'shrink' graphics. What it does is it reads the image metadata and, subject to the space available on the page inserts the image full-size or, if there's insufficient space between the margins, reduces it to fit. AFAIK, if the metadata say the image is 300dpi, Word will scale it accordingly. Most images have no scaling data (or a default 72dpi), so Word tends to insert them as large as possible.

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Paul Edstein
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