About Graphics Manager

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

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About Graphics Manager

Use the Graphics Manager task pane to efficiently manage the pictures that you have inserted into your publication. By managing your pictures in the Graphics Manager task pane, you can ensure that the pictures in your publication are always current.

ShowAbout managing pictures

In the Graphics Manager task pane you can do the following:

  • Quickly check whether the pictures in your publication are embedded or linked.
  • View a list of all linked pictures that have been modified or whose links are broken.
  • Update linked pictures whose original has been modified.
  • Repair broken links.
  • Convert linked pictures to embedded pictures.
  • Save embedded pictures as linked pictures.
  • Go to the page where a specific picture is located.
  • Replace one picture with another picture.
  • View detailed information about a specific picture.

ShowAbout changing display options

You can change your display options so that the list of pictures emphasizes the information you want to see. You can set your options to do any of the following:

  • List all the pictures in your publication.
  • List only linked pictures whose original has been modified or whose links are broken.
  • Sort pictures by Name, File Extension, Page Number, or Status.
  • Display a thumbnail image for each picture so you can identify pictures at a glance.

ShowAbout picture details

Graphics Manager also provides detailed information about any picture in your publication. The Details dialog box shows the following information:

  • The location of a linked picture on a hard disk or network.
  • The percentage that the picture has been scaled from the original.
  • The picture's effective resolution (based on original resolution and scaling).
  • Whether the picture uses RGB color. This information is valuable for ensuring the best quality printing.

Notes

  • You cannot use the Graphics Manager task pane to manage OLE objects in your publication because they are managed by dynamic link libraries (DLLs) in the Microsoft Windows operating system. OLE objects, whether linked or embedded, will not be displayed in the list of pictures in the Graphics Manager task pane. You must manage these in the Links dialog box.
  • You cannot use the Graphics Manager task pane to manage autoshapes, BorderArt, or inserted Clip Art in your publication.
  • You cannot use the Graphics Manager task pane to determine the color used in an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file or in a Windows Metafile (WMF).