Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 16:29:58 Stroller wrote: > On 15 Dec 2009, at 14:00, Mick wrote: > > ... > > I'm guessing that the OOo HTML converter will probably turn images > > into PNGs. If you want to see what the original format is then open > > the .doc file using OOo and Save As an ODF file -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Dec 2009, at 14:00, Mick wrote: ... I'm guessing that the OOo HTML converter will probably turn images into PNGs. If you want to see what the original format is then open the .doc file using OOo and Save As an ODF file - OOo's open document format. Then unzip it and in the folder that is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/14/2009 2:21 PM, Stroller wrote: Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap & has a large filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced wit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 17:44:01 schrieb Renat Golubchyk: > Try checking it with ImageMagick's "identify". app-forensic/foremost may be useful too Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
2009/12/15 Stroller : > > On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:23, Daniel da Veiga wrote: >> >> ... >> When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves >> images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go >> to the folder and check the image. > > When I do this in Open Off

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:23, Daniel da Veiga wrote: ... When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go to the folder and check the image. When I do this in Open Office the image in the resulting .html d

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 16:25, Dale wrote: ... I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this way of seeing things. Since it appears there is a signature, as in what is at the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make it so that is not able to be ext

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:46, Stroller wrote: > Hi all, > > A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image file in > its original format, please? > > This may seem like a bit of an odd request, so I'll explain. The .doc file > is quite large, and it seems like the image it c

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 14:43, Willie Wong wrote: ... (b) If the Big Wig is already happily letting the computer sign those documents for him, is it prohibitive to try the non-technological measure? E.g., ask the Big Wig to provide another image of his signature? Oh, for sure. I just didn't expect

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:25:51AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this way > of seeing things. Since it appears there is a signature, as in what is at > the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make it s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 10:48:57 schrieb Stroller: > I suspect this is going to prove a dead loss. Thanks for your help, > though. As mentioned here http://suppressingfire.org/~burner/evil-mods-tiff/ you could try to use http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ to recover the image from "Object 1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:23 + Stroller wrote:> > On 14 Dec 2009, at 13:01, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > >> ... > >> The file which is responsible for the size of the .doc is > >> immediately obvious when I rename this document.odt to > >> document.zip. > >> > >> It is a 2meg file, but unfortunat

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the original object a image of a signature? If they used MODI (whose point I thought was so that you have OCR on the scanned document) for an illegible scrawl, I think this should be nominated for the DailyWTF Cheers, W I'm some

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 13:01, Renat Golubchyk wrote: ... The file which is responsible for the size of the .doc is immediately obvious when I rename this document.odt to document.zip. It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no fil

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:06:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 12/14/09, Stroller wrote: > > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have > > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension. > > > > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/14/09, Stroller wrote: > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension. > > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document", but > it's apparently not the kind you can open in Word. > > I sus

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:01:50PM +0100, Penguin Lover Renat Golubchyk squawked: > > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have > > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension. > > > > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document", >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:48:57 + Stroller wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2009, at 15:01, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > > Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the > >> image file in its original format, please? > > > > Open th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 13 Dec 2009, at 15:01, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller: Hi all, A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image file in its original format, please? Open the doc file with OpenOffice, save it as a odt file. The odt is a renamed zip archiv

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller: > Hi all, > > A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image > file in its original format, please? Open the doc file with OpenOffice, save it as a odt file. The odt is a renamed zip archive that should contain the image in on of its su

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread felix
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:46:05AM +, Stroller wrote: > A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image > file in its original format, please? My limited experience with OpenOffice is that in slideshows, right click on an image brings up a context menu with a save image

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:12:46 Stroller wrote: > On 13 Dec 2009, at 10:50, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 13 December 2009 08:46:05 Stroller wrote: > If I open the file(s) I have the interest in, the first 4 entries in the > context-menu are the same, but after the first separator I get instead >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Dec 2009, at 10:50, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 13 December 2009 08:46:05 Stroller wrote: >> A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image >> file in its original format, please? >> I have tried in OpenOffice on Windows and Word for Mac. In >> OpenOffice I can't see a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 December 2009 08:46:05 Stroller wrote: > Hi all, > > A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image > file in its original format, please? > > This may seem like a bit of an odd request, so I'll explain. The .doc > file is quite large, and it seems like the imag

[gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Stroller
Hi all, A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image file in its original format, please? This may seem like a bit of an odd request, so I'll explain. The .doc file is quite large, and it seems like the image it contains must be to blame. I would like to extract th