On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:45:07 -0700, Dennis Brunnenmeyer <dennisb at chronometrics.com> wrote:
>As far as I know, the previous suggestion of simply saving the Word >file as in HTML format is as simple and as *accurate* as you can get. >I can't imagine why one would need a third-party utility or a screen >shot application to do this, but then my imagination is limited to >personal experiences. Try it. LOL! For many purposes, the save-as-HTML method may be adequate. But it *is* more-or-less lossy, compared to the internal WMF Word retains, depending on the original format of the image. For vector images imported into Word, the loss is major, as the vector elements (such as equations, for example) are converted to bitmaps (GIF or JPEG) as part of the save-as-HTML process. Text becomes fuzzy, thin lines break up, sharp edges lose some definition. For images that were originally bitmaps, the loss comes from the resampling Word does when creating the output bitmaps at screen resolution. If the original was also at screen resolution, the resampling errors may have only minor consequences (text harder to read), but if it was at print resolution, the loss is worse (from 300dpi down to 96dpi), resulting in ugly printed images. All that can be avoided by extracting the internal WMF images (which can include both bitmap and vector components) from the Word RTF file directly. That's what exwmf.exe does. And since it is fully functional in the demo version of Mif2Go, at: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm it is *free*, with our blessings. What's not to like? ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/
