Microsoft KB Archive/65269

Graphics Pasted from Paintbrush Not Proportionate in WinWord

PSS ID Number: Q65269 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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Summary:

If you draw a square in the Microsoft Windows Paintbrush program, then copy and paste the square into Word, the square appears dispropor- tionate in Word.

To display the image in Word as it would be printed:


 * Word versions 1.x: From the View menu, choose Preferences, and select the Display As Printed check box.
 * Word versions 2.x: From the Options menu, choose Tools, and under Category, select View. Select the Line Breaks And Fonts As Printed check box.

Word attempts to display graphics on the screen as they will be printed. Because Paintbrush is a pixel-oriented drawing program, Word cannot always display the graphic on the screen as it will appear when printed.

If the same square that you pasted in Word was printed directly from Paintbrush, its printed appearance would be proportionately the same as Word’s representation on the screen. Word compensates for this difference to give a true representation of the page on the screen.

Nearly all printers have “square pixels,” meaning that a 1-inch horizontal line will contain the same number of pixels as a 1-inch vertical line. This is different than a typical EGA display, which contains 96 dpi (dots per inch) horizontally and 72 dpi vertically. To compensate for this difference in resolution, Word must scale the graphic on the screen to appear proportionate to the printed output.

To display the graphics in a document without this scaling:


 * Word versions 1.x: From the View menu, choose Preferences, and clear the Display As Printed check box.
 * Word versions 2.x: From the Options menu, choose Tools, and under Category, select View. Clear the Line Breaks And Fonts As Printed check box.

These options only affect the display of the document on the screen, not the printed output.

Reference(s):

“Microsoft Word for Windows User’s Reference,” pages 212-213, 258-259

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