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RE: Images in Word Doc Not Displayed When Viewed on a Mac
Subject:RE: Images in Word Doc Not Displayed When Viewed on a Mac From:"An Tran" <atran -at- bstonetech -dot- com> To:<peter -at- galley -dot- ie>, "Ron Hearn" <rhearn -at- central1 -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:14:54 -0800
Even if the user has access to where the images are located, the file path of the reference needs to be the same for each user. Because it's a Mac, this is very unlikely (I don't know the nomenclature for OSX filepaths, but I can guarantee that it's different).
You are better off embedding the images into the Word Document so that it's self-referential. This increases the file size significantly, but makes the document tremendously more portable. Although, yes, if the user isn't actively making any edits or commenting on the document, a PDF is superior for file transfer.
Andy Tran
Associate Management Consultant
Blackstone Technology Group
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From: techwr-l-bounces+atran=bstonetech -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com on behalf of Peter Hirons
Sent: Mon 12/17/2012 3:28 PM
To: 'Ron Hearn'; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Images in Word Doc Not Displayed When Viewed on a Mac
Sorry about the empty reply - fingers acting quicker than the brain!
If the person receiving the document is not going to edit it then you
should ALWAYS send it as a PDF.
Even between two PCs there can be sufficient differences in the Word
configurations to totally screw up any document.
Peter
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[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+peter=galley -dot- ie -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of
Ron Hearn
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 7:33 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Images in Word Doc Not Displayed When Viewed on a Mac
I create my docs in Word 2010 on a PC. When someone using a Mac opens
one of my word files, the text is all there, but the images are blank.
The work-around for this is to send the Word file as a PDF as the images
are displayed when the PDF is opened on a Mac. Has anyone else
encountered this issue and have a solution other than the PDF one? It
seems to me to be some sort of incompatibility between Word documents
created on a PC and a Mac.
Cheers
Ron Hearn
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