Extract Graphics from Word
Barbara
from a word document so that they can be edited in
Photoshop or other graphic editing program without losing
quality?
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Barbara" <bmcm...@mceermail.buffalo.edu> wrote in message
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CAndersen (Kimba)
I hope someone else has a better answer, but in my experience the
_only_ way to extract an image from Word and retain its original
quality is to:
1. Copy the image in your Word document.
2. Paste the image into MS Photo Editor.
3. Copy the image from MS Photo Editor.
4. Paste the image into your favorite graphics program, such as
Photoshop.
MS Photo Editor is not normally installed with a typical installation
of Office; if you have a version of Office prior to Office 2003, you
will have to use the original installation CD and manually find and
install Photo Editor.
If you have Office 2003, you do _not_ have MS Photo Editor at all.
In this case, I do not know of _any_ way to extract an image from Word
and maintain its original quality. The supposed replacement for Photo
Editor, called Picture Manager, does not preserve image quality.
(Even the hopeful-sounding procedure of saving the Word document as a
web page, which creates separate files for each image, has to be
accompanied by the caveat "the resulting images may not have the
resolution of the originally inserted images." In my experience, they
are just as useless as trying to copy directly from Word to
Photoshop.)
If you are running Office 2003 _and_ you have access to an
installation CD for a previous version of Office, you may be able to
install Photo Editor from the older CD. This may "break" your
installation of Office 2003. I was able to install Photo Editor from
Office XP and then repair my Office 2003 installation.
See:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J1E4227D7
And be sure to see the followup:
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Jeroen Dekker
Photo Editor and saving the doc as a Web page) are both raster image
solutions.
If your graphics are vector-based, i.e. consisting of lines, shapes,
objects and text strings, then such solutions will severely downgrade
the quality of the graphics, their flexibility and usability. Once you
turn them into pixel-by-pixel raster images, there's no going back.
If you copy vector graphics to the clipboard, and paste them into a
vector-based graphics package (e.g. Illustrator as opposed to
PhotoShop), chances are that you can still edit them as vector
graphics. They'll be transferred as Windows Metafiles.
Jeroen Dekker
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"Barbara" <bmcm...@mceermail.buffalo.edu> wrote in message news:<1396001c41275$49d50f70$a101...@phx.gbl>...
Alex
Here's a few more tricks I learnt whilst coping from
Acrobat and they appear to word in most windows
applications.
When coping pixel based images, the zoom setting affects
the copy quality. What I normally do is zoom in to the
max and copy, if ypu get a memory error, zoom out and copy
again, keep doing this until you find the zoom setting
that gives you no memory error.
Then when pasting in Photoshop, Photo-Paint or whatever
your desired image editing package is, do not past as a
new document. Instead, create a blank page with a dpi of
at least 600 with the dimensions matching your screen res,
then paste the image as an object on to the blank page.
Once on the blank page you can edit, the dpi, size, colour
palette etc as normal to reduce the file size of the image
without affecting the quality.
Hope this helps
Alex
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Bob S
Have you tried this version of the "Save as HTML" method?
In Word 2000 or Word 2002, use File | Save as Web Page. In the Save
dialog box, open Tools | Web Options | Pictures tab. You can enter a
number into the "resolution" box (either select one or type one in).
If you want to save your pictures at 300 pixels per inch so you can
print them at decent resolution, just type in 300 instead of taking
the low-resolution default. You can also set the largest screen size
selection.
Bob S
CAndersen (Kimba)
wrote:
>In Word 2000 or Word 2002, use File | Save as Web Page. In the Save
>dialog box, open Tools | Web Options | Pictures tab. You can enter a
>number into the "resolution" box (either select one or type one in).
>If you want to save your pictures at 300 pixels per inch so you can
>print them at decent resolution, just type in 300 instead of taking
>the low-resolution default. You can also set the largest screen size
>selection.
Well, you got me to do some experimentation, and I discovered that
if the image is in the document at 100% size, and
if it is a grayscale image, and
if I set the resolution on the Pictures tab to 111 dpi,
then I can get Word to save a proper copy of the image.
However, I am documenting software written for the Windows OS, and the
screen captures are in color. Windows XP's default color scheme does
not conform to the web-safe color pallette, so that no matter what
resolution I choose the result of saving as a web page is a folder
full of dithered pictures that are useless to me.
Thanks anyway.
EmileeSuzanne
Actually, you can copy and paste directly from Word to Photoshop. I do
it all the time. In fact, I do this with clipart images in Word that I
want to use in other documents. I can then adjust them, edit them, and
save them in a format that I can place into other programs.
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