image resizing better with Word 10 than Gimp?

["Rebecca Edmondson" <beckyed -at- rcn -dot- com>]

I am hoping someone can explain this mystery to me: I've discovered that
Word 10 does a way better job of resizing jpgs than Gimp. My target jpgs are
illustrations of an instrument with some fairly fine detail, but they are
too big-I need to reduce them from 18 inches wide to 5 inches wide. 

 

If I insert the original image into a Word file, it comes in at 6 inches
(35% of its size) and with all the detail preserved. If I grab a screenshot
of it with Hypersnap, the screenshot looks great.

 

If I open the image in Gimp and scale it to 6 inches, then open the scaled
image in Word, it's fuzzy.

 

Anyone able to explain this? 

 

Thanks! 

Becky

 


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