: How to resize images for best view in Word and PDF document? Note: I've asked this question in Super User but I couldn't get an answer. Later on, I noticed this community. I have prepared

@Kevin459

OK, now I have more information and an example image to work with, I can help you resample the image in Photoshop, since it's absolutely huge, and just too big at 8000ppi! This is almost certainly the origin of your problem, and the colour mode is Indexed, which is a bit weird.

First the image is in Indexed Colour mode, you need to change it to Grayscale before you proceed. In Photoshop click Image > Mode > Grayscale. You could also choose RGB mode if there are any colours.

Next click File > Image Size, and enter the following changes.



You can choose your own size in cm for the size you want the image to appear on the page, in this example I set a size of 10cm, but you can put whatever size you want. Then click OK. The image will shrink quite small, but that's OK. Set the zoom to fill the page by pressing CTRL+0 (Command+0 on mac I believe).

That's it. You're done. Save the image. Now try inserting that into Word, and exporting your PDF.

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@Holmes874

If I use printer Adobe PDF in Word, the resulted PDF is inferior even if I select printer settings = High Quality Print.

Fortunately I have acces to Adobe Acrobat. It makes possible the following workaround, that can be useful for you, too


do not print your Word document. Save it.
open Acrobat
select Create PDF
select your Word document - select only, don't open!
goto settings
Adobe PDF settings dialog opens. Here you can edit to have a high, say 600 DPI image resolution. Do not let downsampling to happen below that.
Save your settings as "a preset"
create the PDF and save it


If you do not have Acrobat:

I have tried other PDF printers, too. all of them seems to output crap from Word. It must be Word that cannot output stuff properly. So, if your system can create a PDF from a Word document without wanting you to press "Print" in Word, this can work also without Acrobat

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