Scaling down a cropped JPG having proplems??

[DanielWade]

This is the the org. Jpg.

This has been cropped and scaled, and when I insert it into a word document MSWord 2010 (Windows 7 Ult.) it is very blurry?? What do I need to do to create the bullets so they are .13 in word and not all distorted?

Thanks for any help,
DanielWade

[mwenz]

Redraw it as vector. Size the vector version to what size you wish to use in Word. Export as a PNG. Insert into Word.

If you resize a bitmap larger than its native pixel dimensions, it will always look fuzzy.

Mike

[Acorn]

DW, you haven't explained how you are adding them into MS Word.
I have simply dragged and dropped quite successfully and then scaled.
MS Word 2010 seems to treat this as an embedded Xara document so it is editable as well.
I placed and grouped a slightly larger white circle behind the bullet to avoid any spurious cropping. You can make this a rectangle to then sort out the vertical position.

If you are creating a blob in Xara then you need to make it as big as possible (e.g., 128 px) and then use Word's Picture Tools > Size to scale it to your wanted size.
Do not use Compress Pictures as you will revert to what you currently have.

I have not tried importing the bullet as a PNG to then add 3D effects, shadows and the like afterwards.

Acorn