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 <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote: From: Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Extracting art from Word docs To: mkrupp128 at yahoo.com, framers at 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?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110328/d58efd43/attachment.html>
