Thanks for the good advice, Fred!
 
I'm with you on all but the last point. Unfortunately, this is one of those 
legacy docs that has a long and checkered history. It was originally done in 
PageMaker 6.5, and it was only through a series of gyrations and extractions 
that I got a Word doc at all. No source art files, nobody left to tell the tale!
 
I tried changing the extension, but I have only Word 2003 at work, and WinZip 
wouldn't buy it. Will have to try it at home with a more recent version, but I 
do see your point. Will try more maneuvers tomorrow.
 
This list is such a great resource! You've saved me enormous amounts of work so 
many times!
 
Thanks again,
Marguerite
 

--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Extracting art from Word docs
To: mkrupp...@yahoo.com, framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 6:03 PM




Marguerite Krupp wrote:

>Does the technique of changing the file extension to .zip require 
>that the graphics be imported by reference, so they exist as separate 
>files when unpacked?

First, note that it is *not* necessary to change the filename extension. All 
that is necessary is to open it with a tool like WinZip that looks past the 
extension to see what's inside the file itself. 
 
Second, the word/media folder you will find inside the Word file will contain a 
graphic object for every graphic in the document whether it was pasted, 
inserted by reference, or embedded as an editable object. Graphics that are in 
a vector format (WMF, Visio objects, etc.) are in the word/media folder as .emf 
or .wmf objects, and raster graphics seem to be in .png format. I was just 
working on a document that had a mixture of pasted vector figures, pasted 
raster images, and embedded Visio drawing objects, and all of them were present 
in the word/media folder.
 
Third, if the graphics were imported by reference you'd already have spearate 
external files for each one, so there seems to be little point in extracting 
another copy from the Word document.
 
-Fred Ridder  
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