On 2 Apr 2010 at 14:40, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > Well, when I sent the Word doc to my editor via G mail, he said the > music manuscript tiff and the text box were obviously in the wrong > place. I know G mail uses a zipping utility now, it seems everything > my editor sends me now I have to unzip. So is there someway I can > lock the Word doc contents so the layout doesn't get changed? I'm > using a PC and not a Mac.
I've just spent a lot of time mucking about with Word graphics in a client project, and they are just as big a pain as they always have been. It's too bad MS has never seen fit to fix this problem (which goes back as long as I've been using Word, i.e., to the early 90s). One of the things I do to make layouts stable is to make sure that my graphics are placed so that there is some space between text and margins, so that tiny layout differences on different PCs won't cause layout to change (remember that screen display, because it's WYSIWYG, uses the rasterizer of the printer driver set when you view the document, so different printer drivers will cause minuscule differences in screen display). The point is to add some space around things so that minor pixel-level differences won't cause changes, such as causing an image to flip back and forth across a page break (I've seen it, and you probably have, too). One thing that could help is embeding your fonts. This makes the file uneditable, but also insures the same fonts are used on the target PC as on yours. It doesn't fix the graphics in place, but it will mean there's less chance for fonts to change the layout of the rest of the document in a way that would cause the graphics to shift about. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
