Graphics Fundamentals

[Jeff Coatsworth]

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)
jeff.coatsworth at jonassoftware.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:08 PM
To: Jeremy H. Griffith; framers at lists.frameusers.com
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy H.
Griffith
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 8:08 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Graphics Fundamentals


On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:24 -0500, Jack DeLand <jdeland1 at comcast.net>
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.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/
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