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Thread #126678   Message #2816648
Posted By: JohnInKansas
20-Jan-10 - 09:50 AM
Thread Name: Tech: MS Word to jpeg?-Noteworthy Composer
Subject: RE: Tech: MS Word to jpeg?
L in C -
Your simplest procedure would be to print scores directly from Noteworthy, and then scan the printed pages and Save As GIF or JPG.

If you want multiple pages collected in a single file, you can "Insert Picture" to put each .gif or .jpg image into a Word document. Once you've saved the individual page image files (.gif or .jpg) use "Insert|Picture|From File to "paste" each picture into the document. The commands are on the top toolbar in earlier Word, but if you're using Word 2007 just use the quick key Alt-I, P, F to insert the pictures (unless you just enjoy wandering through the splattered 680 menu choices on the toolbar and drilling down to something useful).

If the "pictures" display in your Word document, you should be able to email the document to anyone, and they should be able to see it the same as what you see. If the person you're sending to doesn't have Word on their machine, they can download a "Word Reader" from Microsoft that will let them view and print the document, although the reader alone won't allow them to edit the document.

Word can be set to display "Place markers for pictures" in which only an outline of the picture space is displayed.

In Word 2007, the setting to change how pictures are displayed is at COWSPLAT|Word Options (a button at the bottom), on the Advanced Tab, where you may need to uncheck a box that says "show picture placeholders" in the section for "Show Document Content."

My recollection is that it's in Tools|Options in earlier Word versions, but I don't have an earlier version still running to check that.

Note that some printers will only print placeholders for inserted images if you print in a "draft mode," and if you try to print a Word document that contains pictures you may have to change printer settings – in Word and/or in the printer setup to get the printer to show the actual pictures. Most printers will show a blank rectangle for any image that the driver for the printer can't interpret, so it's best to stick to common image file types.

Your scanner should allow you to save the scans of the printed pages in a variety of formats, although with some scanners if you use a "text" setting for the scan, the scan is made in "indexed color" mode, and with most scanners (and most graphics programs) you can only save indexed color images as .gif or .tif.

If you use a "photo" setting for the scan, the scanner should create the scan image in rgb mode, which most scanners should be able to save as a .jpg file. If you can only save as .gif, Word should be able to insert the picture as .gif, but even simple graphics display/editing programs usually can change a .gif to a .jpg file if you change the image mode from "indexed color" to either "grayscale" or to "rgb" before using "Save As".to get a file in a different format like .jpg.

If you have Word 2000 or later, you should be able to "Save As PDF" to get a .pdf file of the Word document, although with versions prior to Word 2007 you may have to go to Microsoft to download the (free) "Save as PDF Filter" and install the filter before you'll find that option in your Word. That filter may not be available for very old Word versions, but you should be able to get it (I think) for any version that still runs (hasn't been crippled by the updates) in WinXP.

Or you can buy a multipurpose printer/fax/scanner like my latest one in which you just slap down a stack of pages and the scanner scans, saves, runs OCR, and saves the result as a multipage PDF on your computer. But it wasn't cheap.

John