Word graphics unclear in FrameMaker?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Benzi wondered: <<I have a Word document with embedded graphics. I'm  
converting the document to FrameMaker. The graphics are clear in the  
Word document, but when I copy them into PaintShop Pro and save them  
as GIFs ior JPEGs, and subsequently create anchored frames in  
FrameMaker and import the saved files, the graphics are blurred.>>

_Never_ copy graphics out of Word. There's a huge difference between  
how Word represents a graphics file internally and the original  
format in which the graphic was imported, and that distance isn't in  
Word's favor.

You have two choices. First and best, ask for the original files used  
to create the graphics. That will let you work with the graphics in  
the original creator application, or in an application that  
understands the format better than Word does. This not only lets you  
obtain the best quality from the graphics, but also lets you store  
the original files with the rest of the project files. The longer you  
wait, the more likely it is that the original files will be lost and  
have to be recreated from scratch.

Second, try saving the file as HTML. (Depending on your version of  
Word, you may have to access this via the "save as" function, as  
"save as Web page", as "export HTML", or some other funky but  
reasonably obvious wording.) Because HTML files do not themselves  
contain graphics, and only contain links to the graphics, this  
approach should produce both an HTML file -- which you can discard,  
since Word's HTML basically sucks -- and a series of graphics. Most  
likely GIFs, but this probably varies among versions of Word; newer  
versions may save PNGs instead. The quality won't be nearly as good  
as using files from the original graphics application, but it should  
be acceptable.


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