Import by reference question: Word conversion to FM11

[Robert Lauriston]

In the .docx files I've extracted, the bitmaps were PNG. Converting
them to TIFF wouldn't add any value, at least as far as inserting them
by reference in FrameMaker docs.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Carol J. Elkins
<celkins at awrittenword.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>