As another thought, you might try posting to the Word-PC email list and see if anyone has a suggestion for how to get the equations OUT of Word in a format you can use?
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 1:45 PM Lin Sims <ljsims...@gmail.com> wrote: > I saved to RTF and then imported the RTF into FrameMaker. The result in > FrameMaker was a PNG. > > I'm sorry, I think I didn't make that clear before. :( > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 12:29 PM <tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote: > >> Hi Lin, OK, just saved one of the equation docs to RTF and nada, zip, >> zilch. >> . . the equations were not converted to PNGs. They remained as equations. >> It's just a simple save to RTF, right? GRR . . . Tammy Van Boening Tammy >> dot >> vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com >> -----Original Message----- From: Framers On Behalf Of Lin Sims Sent: >> Friday, >> August 6, 2021 9:26 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker >> software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated >> PDF >> Well, that sucks. If it's any help, when Word converts to RTF, the >> equations >> are turned into PNGs. It should be possible to save them out separately. I >> think. Never had to do something like that with Word. Also, you can export >> images only from the PDF file to PNG, JPEG, JPEG2000, and TIFF formats. >> Again, don't know if that'll be useful, but I offer it as something to >> consider. On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 11:10 AM wrote: > Hi Lin, Thank you for >> the >> approach. The extra rub is that I need to > produce another document that >> uses the exact same equations but w/out > all the text of this current >> guide >> - basically, just an appendix of > equations, so I need to be able to >> share >> them among multiple files. I > was trying to write once in Word and save >> to >> PNG so that I could > obviously import by reference into multiple >> documents >> and have just > one location (the Word document) where I would maintain >> updates. > Compliments of Ric, I have a variation of this w/ saving the >> Word >> doc > to a PDF, cropping the document to get the equation that I need as >> a > >> PDF and importing as a PDF. Yes, very tedious, but at least I can > share >> among multiple files and as w/ your approach, I now have vector > files >> for >> the images, not rasterized files, so they remain crisp and > clear no >> matter >> the zoom level in the PDF. (So you and Ric were on the > same page- great >> minds do think alike!) I just wish there was a way to > automate this, but >> for now, I will plow through unless someone comes > up w/ a different >> approach. Thank you again! TVB Tammy Van Boening > Tammy dot vanboening at >> spectrumwritingllc dot com > www.spectrumwritingllc.com > -- Lin Sims >> _______________________________________________ This message is from the >> Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit >> the >> list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and >> unsubscribe at >> http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send >> administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com Scanned by McAfee >> and >> confirmed virus-free. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2zCJMrO >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> This message is from the Framers mailing list >> >> Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com >> Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com >> Archives located at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ >> Subscribe and unsubscribe at >> http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com >> Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com >> > > > -- > Lin Sims > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com