Hi Diane, If the Word docs are in the new docx format, then you can extract the graphics right out of them. The docx format is basically a zipped xml file. If you rename the file with the extension .zip, you can use Windows to extract the component files for you. I read about this one in some tech writing blog, but I can't remember which one to give you the link to this tip (sorry). Jeff Coatsworth Documentation Specialist Gary Jonas Computing Ltd. 905-886-0544 905-886-8511 (fax) [email protected]
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:08 PM To: Jeremy H. Griffith; [email protected] Subject: RE: Graphics Fundamentals Hi Jeremy, We are converting some word docs to FM. The graphics files are embedded in word and we have no idea what the original tool was to create the graphics. When we import the word doc into FM, the MS2007 filter in FM does a good job. It creates frames and places the same embedded graphics in the frames. Does FM know at this point what the original graphics file format is and will Mif2Go extract the graphics to the original file format? Or am I wishing for too much. Thanks lots, Diane =============== -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jeremy H. Griffith Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Graphics Fundamentals On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:24 -0500, Jack DeLand <[email protected]> wrote: >They may be .eps, but they are copied and pasted into the files, not >linked, so I can't open them, or at least don't know how to. There is >no graphics subdirectory or other file location. Ideas? You can always get embedded graphics out of Frame and into files of their *original* type with Mif2Go; the free demo version will do that for you: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm Detailed instructions are in the User's Guide, par. 29.2.3, "Exporting and converting embedded graphics". The graphics will not have their original names, because Frame discarded those on import. (Word does better; it keeps them. ;-) But they *will* be in the original format, most likely EPS in your case, and the process is very fast and automatic; you can do a full book at once. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[email protected]> http://www.omsys.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dgcaller%40earthlink .net Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jeff.coatsworth%40jo nassoftware.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
