Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11

[Fred Ridder]

No, it doesn't render them as JPEGs because there is no rendering involved. The zip archive that is the .docx file contains the source graphic files in whatever format they were in when inserted into the Word document. Just look in the Word/media folder inside the archive.

What this approach does *not* handle, though, is easy access to any embedded OLE objects, such as Visio drawings or PowerPoint graphics. These show up in the Word/embeddings folder as binary objects that are not usable outside of Word.

Also note that it is not necessary to change the extension of the Word filename if you have a real zip tool like WinZip rather than using Windows' own zip feature. Just choose "All files (*.*)" in the WinZip Open dialog, and you can open the .docx archive directly. 

-Fred Ridder

> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 13:15:08 -0600
> To: robert at lauriston.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> From: celkins at awrittenword.com
> Subject: Re: Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11
> 
> 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.
> 
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