Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11

[Carol J. Elkins]

Yes, but doesn't that render the extracted graphics as .jpgs? I 
strongly believe that .jpg is not the best graphic format to use for 
technical publications. Everyone's usage may vary and a lot depends 
on how the graphics were inserted in the Word doc in the first place, 
but .jpgs don't work for me; nor can I edit them. I prefer vector 
when possible and when not, I'll save out as .tif. But I don't have 
to make that decision if I let Acrobat extract as .eps. Even if the 
Word graphics are bitmaps, they don't lose any information when 
converted to .eps.

Carol

At 12:59 PM 6/5/2014, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>You don't need to convert Word to PDF to extract images. Save the Word
>doc as .docx if it's not already, make a copy, change the extension
>from .docx to .zip, extract the files, and the images are all in
>\word\media.
>
>On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Carol J. Elkins
><celkins at awrittenword.com> wrote:
> > When I need to convert a Word book into Frame, the workflow I use is to
> > print the Word book to PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat, and export all of the
> > graphics as .eps files.