extracting photos from a word document.

[lacs]

Please help! I am a graphic designer working on a brochure. My client
sent me his photos in a word document. I need to extract them in order
to save them as a jpg or tif. Can this be done, if so how. I am
working on a Mac and have the Word X for MACS version. Thanks

 

[little_creature]

Please help! I am a graphic designer working on a brochure. My client
sent me his photos in a word document. I need to extract them in order
to save them as a jpg or tif. Can this be done, if so how. I am
working on a Mac and have the Word X for MACS version. Thanks

I know these 2 options:
1. to do it manually - select the image >mouse click with holding down
CTRL key and in contextual menu choose save as picture

2. Save the file as webpage - this will create html text (which you
can ignore at this point) but extract all the images into separate
folder
Go to preferences>general>web option pictures to control how your
images should be exported

However, do not expect to get high-quality images from word. If the
images have been inserted into word and then you want to extract then
you will loose quality. The best idea is to keep the originals images
together with your word document. If you can as your client to support
you all the images he/she has inserted into word it would be the best
way, if not, you have to use either of above bearing in mind some data
loose.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi lacs -

Everything little_creature says is true, but I doubt that either is gong to
render the image quality you need for a brochure - especially if the project
is going to commercial press. Among other things Word doesn't support CMYK,
so if the images started that way they will have become RGB & have to be
converted back to CMYK.

IMHO, your best recourse is to have the client zip copies of the original
images & send you those to work with. You can still import/place any text
content from the Word doc into whatever you're using to generate the
brochure - which I'm assuming is something other than Word.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[lacs]

I know these 2 options:
1. to do it manually - select the image >mouse click with holding down
CTRL key and in contextual menu choose save as picture

2. Save the file as webpage - this will create html text (which you
can ignore at this point) but extract all the images into separate
folder
Go to preferences>general>web option pictures to control how your
images should be exported

However, do not expect to get high-quality images from word. If the
images have been inserted into word and then you want to extract then
you will loose quality. The best idea is to keep the originals images
together with your word document. If you can as your client to support
you all the images he/she has inserted into word it would be the best
way, if not, you have to use either of above bearing in mind some data
loose.

Thanks to all of you who replied so quickly. I did get my client to
send me the source files. Which, as was said the best option. But, I
am surprised to see how hard this is to do. Again, Thanks.