Photoshop/Microsoft Word Question

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Yitz
Oct 27, 2003
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Does anyone know how to extract embedded images from Microsoft Word?

Thanks – this will help me a lot.

Yitz
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Cornucopia Smith
Oct 27, 2003
Open the Word document, click once on the image to highlight its frame, press Control-C (or used edit/copy) to copy the image to the clipboard, then paste (Control-V) it into whatever or wherever you want it to go.

Corny

"Yitz" wrote in message
Does anyone know how to extract embedded images from Microsoft Word?
Thanks – this will help me a lot.

Yitz

JC
J C
Oct 27, 2003
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:08:16 -0000, "Cornucopia Smith" wrote:

Open the Word document, click once on the image to highlight its frame, press Control-C (or used edit/copy) to copy the image to the clipboard, then paste (Control-V) it into whatever or wherever you want it to go.
Corny

The copy/paste procedure can sometimes ruin the image.

The better method is to produce a PDF from the Word document, then open that PDF in PS. With this method, what you see in the Word doc will be what PS displays.

— JC
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Yitz
Oct 27, 2003
Thanks. The Copy and Paste only keeps it at 72dpi I believe. I will try the PDF method.

"J C" wrote in message
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:08:16 -0000, "Cornucopia Smith" wrote:

Open the Word document, click once on the image to highlight its frame, press Control-C (or used edit/copy) to copy the image to the clipboard,
then
paste (Control-V) it into whatever or wherever you want it to go.
Corny

The copy/paste procedure can sometimes ruin the image.

The better method is to produce a PDF from the Word document, then open that PDF in PS. With this method, what you see in the Word doc will be what PS displays.

— JC
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Eric Gill
Oct 27, 2003
"Yitz" wrote in
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Thanks. The Copy and Paste only keeps it at 72dpi I believe. I will try the PDF method.

That is precisely the right way. However, bear in mind that Word applies heavy JPEG compression and changes the colorspace to RGB, so the results may be (probably will be) dissapointing anyway.
JK
JP Kabala
Oct 28, 2003
You can try this— if Word is configured correctly, it will work Right click on the image in Word and, if whomever installed word on the machine in the first place did their job right, you should see an entry
called "Edit Picture"– this will call up an image editor, whichever one is specified
in your tools>options

If , however, it is grayed out, go in to tools>options and try to change it to your
preferred editor (Photoshop?) BUT
It is entirely possible that you may not be able to change the editor if you haven’t installed
all the appropriate seervice packs.

Then you have tyo go to the Microsoft site, download all the service packs, and change the
options.

It was a major screw up with Office XP

As an alternative, if you have screen capture software, zoom as large as you can on the
screen do a screen grab, save that, and edit that in Photoshop "Eric Gill" wrote in message
"Yitz" wrote in
news:Lifnb.679$:

Thanks. The Copy and Paste only keeps it at 72dpi I believe. I will try the PDF method.

That is precisely the right way. However, bear in mind that Word applies heavy JPEG compression and changes the colorspace to RGB, so the results may be (probably will be) dissapointing anyway.
JC
J C
Oct 28, 2003
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:28:28 GMT, Eric Gill
wrote:

"Yitz" wrote in
news:Lifnb.679$:

Thanks. The Copy and Paste only keeps it at 72dpi I believe. I will try the PDF method.

That is precisely the right way. However, bear in mind that Word applies heavy JPEG compression and changes the colorspace to RGB, so the results may be (probably will be) dissapointing anyway.

I just recently rescued two images from Word. The author of the Word doc said they were digicam pics which I took to assume meant they were JPG. Since the Word file size was rather small I think I guessed correctly.

BUT,I wonder if you can change the Distiller driver that Word uses to create a PDF so that the conversions you mentioned do not occur. You ever tried that?

— JC
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Eric Gill
Oct 28, 2003
J C wrote in news::

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:28:28 GMT, Eric Gill
wrote:

"Yitz" wrote in
news:Lifnb.679$:

Thanks. The Copy and Paste only keeps it at 72dpi I believe. I will try the PDF method.

That is precisely the right way. However, bear in mind that Word applies heavy JPEG compression and changes the colorspace to RGB, so the results may be (probably will be) dissapointing anyway.

I just recently rescued two images from Word. The author of the Word doc said they were digicam pics which I took to assume meant they were JPG. Since the Word file size was rather small I think I guessed correctly.

BUT,I wonder if you can change the Distiller driver that Word uses to create a PDF so that the conversions you mentioned do not occur. You ever tried that?

Yes. I always use the modified press settings I faked up for, well, offset press – no downsampling or compression. It’s Word, not Acrobat, mangling the pics.

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