Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11

[Scott Turner]

Another technique to get graphics in vector rather than raster format is to extract the page from the PDF, then crop the image. Your final image, while better than a simple raster graphic is still limited by the original resolution. This does get around the horizontal band problem.

> On Jun 5, 2014, at 13:53, "Carol J. Elkins" <celkins at awrittenword.com> wrote:
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> 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. Then I import those by reference into the FM book. (I rename them first to some meaningful filename.) However, sometimes for reasons I don't understand, the graphics exported out of the PDF are rendered in multiple horizontal strips and are not usable.
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> So my second workflow is to open the PDF page with the problem graphic on it in Illustrator, select the graphic, copy it to a blank file, and save it in Illustrator format. I import the Illustrator graphic by reference into Framemaker.
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> I'm using more and more Illustrator graphics as direct imports into my Framemaker documents. It saves time to not have to convert them to .eps or other graphic format. Plus, when I click them in Framemaker, they open directly in Illustrator for editing.
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> Carol
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> At 11:00 AM 6/5/2014, you wrote:
>> FM, of course, converts the doc with all the Word graphics embedded. I can get copies of all the graphics by doing a HTML save from Word and then collecting all the .png and .jgp files that I need from there. But what is the most efficient way (let's call it the modern way) to get these into the FM document as imported graphics to replace the embedded graphics. I've done the replace each one by hand route in the past, but it "rawther bores me".
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