Problem:
After conversion to PDF, any 32-bit images (i.e. with an alpha channel, either PNG or TIFF) in a Microsoft Word document are resampled to a much lower resolution (800 -> 300 dpi). All other images (24-bit) maintain their original resolution.
I encounter this problem when using both lossless (ZIP) image compression and no image compression in PDFCreator.
Does anyone know if this problem can be avoided without converting my images from 32-bit to 24-bit? Or is this an unavoidable problem of Word?
A different but potentially related problem can be seen by converting the Word document on the following page. The image does not have a high enough resolution to trigger the resampling, but the image is clearly modified by the conversion (affecting transparency).
Software:
PDFCreator 2.3.0 (build 103)
Microsoft Word 2016 (16.0.6001.1061) 32-bit
Setup:
I have PDFCreator set to High Quality with image resampling disabled.
I have a Microsoft Word document with 800 dpi images that are stored without compression (Options -> Advanced -> Do not compress images in file).