Extracting embedded graphics from Word

[Combs, Richard]

Pat Christenson wrote: 
 
> I have approximately 2000 pages to convert from Word to Frame. The
> graphics are embedded but the client wants them imported by reference
> in Frame. I tried "extracting" them from Word by saving a file as
> HTML but the graphics became blurry and unusable. They look fine when
> I open the Word file in Frame.
> 
> Is there a way to extract graphics from Word without losing quality?
> Or a utility that converts embedded graphics in Frame into imported-
> by-reference?

You can do either or both with Mif2Go. Here's an old post from Jeremy Griffith explaining: 

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On Fri, 2 May 2008 10:02:25 +1000, "Geoffrey Marnell" <geoffrey at abelard.com.au>
wrote:

>A posting some weeks ago mentioned a utility that could extract 
>graphics copied into FM files and restore them in their original 
>format. I should have been paying more attention at the time, but can 
>someone remind me what that utility is called? (I'm hoping it can do a 
>better job than Acrobat.)

Yes.  Mif2Go can do that for you, and it works fine with the demo version; you don't have to buy it:
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm

The process is described in the User's Guide, par. 29.2.3, "Exporting and converting embedded graphics".  It works best if the image is alone in its anchored frame; then you get the original format at full original resolution back.  You do *not* get the original name, because Frame does not store it; yet another reason never to embed graphics.

Worst case, Mif2Go exports the graphic at screen resolution, in the format you select (usually GIF or JPEG), using Frame's native graphic export filters.  In that case, callouts, montages, etc., are retained, but the resolution is generally much worse than the original was.
 
>BTW: does anyone know of a similar utility that can pull graphics out 
>of MS Word documents?

Actually, you can do that with another utility included with Mif2Go, exwmf.exe.  Save the Word file as RTF, and run the utility from the command line, as described in par. 29.6.2, "Using the Mif2Go exwmf utility".  Word *does* retain the names of the graphics it embeds, so you will get back WMFs containing Word's internal representation of each image named "originalname.wmf".

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/
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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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