picture links dont transfer from Word 2004 (Mac) to Word 2000 (PC)

[Kraig]

Hi, I have Office 2004 on my mac and Office 2000 on my PC. I have added
pictures to my word document using the link command to save space and
loading time. The pictures are linked with relative links and I have
stored the document and pictures (together) on a file server. Now when
I access the document with the PC (or anyone else in my work group) the
pictures don't show up because the embeded link is in mac format as in
"hotofolderhoto.jpg" rather than PC as in "\photofolder\photo.jpg".
The document is readable by my mac and any other.

How do I make the photo links transfer?

Thanks in advance

Kraig

 

[Kraig]

Let me append to my previous post:

Does anyone know where I can get the answer to this problem?

Thanks

Kraig

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

No answer because apparently no one has a clue....I sure don't.

Here's a movie guy who wrote a script to change the links dynamically:
http://www.digitalgamedeveloper.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25335

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Whoops, I hadn't actually meant to post that. Then it obliged me to spend
more time on this, cause that was such a bad answer.

I just Inserted a clip art Picture as a Link, switched to viewing Field
Codes, did a Find & Replace to change the : in the file paths to a \, closed
and re-opened the document, and the picture seemed to still be there, as a
link. Quit and reopened Word, and the picture was still there, as a link.

Make some copies of your doc and experiment with that, maybe.

I do recall reading something about how OS X lets you put a / in a filename,
but beneath the surface it's really something else, so maybe the same thing
can apply here? I have no idea, really.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

No answer because apparently no one has a clue....I sure don't.

Here's a movie guy who wrote a script to change the links dynamically:
http://www.digitalgamedeveloper.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25335

Is the person using Mac OS9 because the if so that might be the reason
for the : Becaue the hidden internal file system uses :: instead of /

on OSX uses the unix system of File://harddrive/foldername/document.

ON OS9 would be something like File::hardrive::Foldername::document

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[Kraig]

Thanks Daiya,

If I can get the "\" to stick from my mac that would do just fine for
me. I will play around with it. I had not thought of using the find
and replace with field codes revealed. What a great idea. I had
thought of trying to change the ":" to "\" on the mac side, but couldn'
t find anywhere to do so, now I know. Also, since I am dealing with,
literally, hundreds of jpg images in the documents, I use a macro to
place and format them and it includes the finder comments as captions.
The problem is that it is not pure VBA but uses applescript too so I
can't just link them on a PC in the first place. However, (after all
that babble) I think your solution may just work. I will post back.

Kraig

 

[Kraig]

Hi Phillip,

You are right, however, in the highlevel languages, OSX still uses the
":" as a folder delimiter. My problem is not on the mac side of things
though. It is the PC's that can't understand ":" or "/". Daiya has
posted that maybe the mac can understand the PC "\". Like I mentioned
above, I will post back if that is so as that would solve my cross
platform compatibility issue. Thanks again for your comments.

Kraig

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Oh, dear....I don't think it's going to stick on your Mac. I didn't
UpdateFields properly, and when I did, the picture vanished. (Word should
have updated fields when I closed and opened, but apparently not).

Apologies. I'll ask around a bit.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

You are right, however, in the highlevel languages, OSX still uses the
":" as a folder delimiter. My problem is not on the mac side of things
though. It is the PC's that can't understand ":" or "/". Daiya has
posted that maybe the mac can understand the PC "\". Like I mentioned
above, I will post back if that is so as that would solve my cross
platform compatibility issue. Thanks again for your comments.

I think Daiya is confusing Windows "\" with Unix "/", which is what she is
probably thinking of. In AppleScript you can use the "POSIX file" scripting
addition to convert / paths to : paths with disk names, and "POSIX path of"
to do the opposite. But neither will help with "\" paths, and especially not
ones beginning "c:". But you could write a Macro using PathSeparator
function that would work on either app, and/or uses conditional code.

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[Kraig]

Thanks to you both, Daiya and Paul.

I have tried Daiya's solution and, yep, Word 2004 mac doesn't recognize
the \ path convention or the \\. Word 2000 for pc uses \\ instead of \
as if the \ isn't bad enough. BTW, Paul, as I stated in the original
posting I am using Word 2004 on mac and Word 2000 on pc. Additionally,
though I can do the change by find and replace like Daiya suggested,
then save a separate pc version of the document (the beauty of not
including the graphics internally is that the file size is very small),
the pc won't load the images without performing an update fields
command, which then despite including a \* MERGEFORMAT command looses
the figure formating (ie. width and height).

So, I am thinking that I may have to either make an autorun macro for
the document that conditionally reformats the links by system and the
graphics every time the document is opened (I can just imagine the
chewing-out I would get for putting an automatic macro on a pc) or
revert to including the graphics in the document itself and get all
that wonderful bloat.

Can I make Word keep an internal graphic in a compressed format like
jpeg? or does it always store it as a bitmap (which is the default and
causes all the graphics related bloat)?

Any possibilities that I have missed?

Thanks again

Kraig

 

[Kraig]

Addendum:

Performing an update fileds command on Word 2000 for pc causes huge
file size increases even with the \d command in the fields (\d tells
the computer to link, not include, the file). So, I guess the result
is that the only way to consistently share a graphics laden word
document from Word 2004 for mac is to insert the graphics into the
document without linking. Too, bad.