Another thought. Is there Word art used anywhere, or any graphics
that have been drawn within Word? These use proprietary compression
algorithms, which may be decompressed to illustrate their true size.
Or, are there special characters (say, embedded math) that are being
converted graphics?
Or, are there embedded compressed file formats that are being
decompressed and converted into something else?
Art's suggestion of removing the images and importing RTF is how I'd
do it too. The only issue is that it is very difficult extracting
vector graphics from Word without converting them to bitmap. But
then, could this be what is going on?
Alan
On 27/07/2007, at 6:29 AM, Art Campbell wrote:
My first guess would be that there were graphics embedded in the Word
file that are now embedded in the FM file and are being converted to
FM vector graphics.
The better way to do this is to separate the graphics from Word before
importing (by saving as an HTML file to spin the graphics files off),
save the Word file as RTF (many people prefer text) and open that in
FM. Them importing the graphics by reference.
Art
On 7/26/07, O'Laoghaire Micheal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I converted a pretty large Word document by opening it in Frame,
first
saving it as a MIF, then saving it as FM
The FM file initially appeared pretty OK. However after I scrolled
throug the file (without making ANY changes), then saved it, the file
grew enormously in size.
Some specs:
Initial Word document had about 256 pages, a TOC, lots of tables and
embedded graphics
Almost everything seemed to make it through the conversion OK.
Perhaps a
handful of graphics were dropped.
FILE SIZE (MB)
Original Word file 5.0
MIF File after Conversion 11
FM file from MIF File (initial) 3.1
FM file after a litle scrolling 13
FM file after a little more scrolling 38
Final FM file size ~ 68
I also tried copying/pasting the contents of newly-converted file
into a
'clean' new file.
The size of that FM File 72 MB
I also tried cnverting the initial Word file to RTF, then
converting the
RTF to MIF and FM. However, the results were the same.
The behavior is also very consistent and repeatable.
I have also converted quite a number of other Word docs to Frame
lately
without eny evidence of similar problems.
Question:
Has anyone seen this behavior before?
Do you have any ideas of what the possible cause is (other than
"something in the Word file is corrupted"), as well as possible fixes
and/orworkarounds?
Micheal O'Laoghaire
KBS Documentation
Comverse Inc.
Cambridge, MA.
Tel: (617) 273-5414
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