Extracting art from Word docs

[Pinkham, Jim]

Again, Marguerite, this is why I recommend the technique outlined in Lyn
Eggleston's article:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/ss/extractword.htm. I
have Word 2003 and Corel Draw at the office, and this approach yields
good results, preserving the resolution of the source files that were
placed in the Word docs.
 
Jim

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Marguerite
Krupp
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:03 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Fred Ridder
Subject: RE: Extracting art from Word docs


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 <docudoc at 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  
	

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