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Subject:Re: Word pictures -- more From:George Mena <George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:59:29 -0700
The only other thing you can do is port the Word graphic over to
FrameMaker and edit it in the Frame document. The Word graphics
palette, piece of garbage that it otherwise is, will let you edit the
graphic within Frame even though it's a Word graphic. Copy in Word,
toggle over to Frame, from Edit, select Paste Special and drop it in to
the Frame doc for editing.
And I know I've mentioned this more than a few times.
George
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Neufeld [SMTP:Dave_Neufeld -at- SPECTRUMSIGNAL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 11:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: Word pictures -- more
>
> Hi Patricia,
>
> Been there, done that...
>
> I use PDFs to salvage vector graphics from unsupported and
> uncooperative
> formats to Freehand. You could probably do the same with Illustrator.
> It's
> not perfect, but it gives you something. It assumes,of course, that
> you can
> produce PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Distiller. If not, you may also be
> able do
> this by printing to a PostScript file. Here goes:
>
> 1. Open the Word document containing the Word picture you wish to
> export,
> and go to that page.
>
> 2. Ensure that you've selected your Adobe Distiller as the printer
> destination. (If you don't have Distiller, select a generic PostScript
> printer driver and select Print to File. Avoid using an HP PS printer
> driver
> because not all PostScript filters will read their output.)
>
> 3. Print the page containing the graphic to create a PDF (or PS) file
> of
> that page.
>
> 4. Open Illustrator and import the PDF (or PS) file. I'm assuming that
> your
> version of Illustrator can import PDFs and PS files.
>
> 5. Voila. It should be there in a form you can edit and re-export in
> whatever format you wish.
>
> HINTS:
> - Before creating the PDF or PS file from Word, open the graphic in in
> Word
> Picture and change all the fonts used to their PostScript equivalents
> (such
> as Arial to Helvetica). This MAY avoid problems when Illustrator opens
> the
> files.
> - I prefer using PDFs to using PS because Acrobat tends to give
> cleaner
> results.
>
>
