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• • November 19, 2009 at 1:04 pm #53826
    DavidM

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    Dear All,

    I am importing Word files into CS3 with their associated images and would like to release the images to place them where I want, usually one image at the top of a double-column spread, or multiple images together on a single page without text.

    Is it necessary each time to choose Anchored Object>Options>Custom, then Anchored Object>Release or is there an easier way?

    Thanks!

    David

  • November 19, 2009 at 1:47 pm #53827
    Bob Levine

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    I'm pretty sure it can be scripted. If nobody comes along here you might wan't to try the scipting forum at Adobe's User to User forums.

  • November 19, 2009 at 1:57 pm #53828
    Anonymous

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    It would be best to get the original images than importing images from word, unless this document is to be purposed for internet use only.

    To release it from the anchor you can just Cut and Paste the object. But you can only select one anchored object at a time.

    Personally, I would not import the inline graphics. And if the only graphics were inside Word, I would print that Word document to a PDF and use Acrobats Professional tool to Export all Images under Advanced>Export All Images

    The unfortuante thing is that Anchored Objects are treated like text, and InDesign won't generate an object style for imported graphics, or imported inline graphics.

    I'm not sure why you would want to release the Inline graphics, the persumption on my part is that you want to move the images around easily or something.

    The best way I can think of is to edit the Anchor Object settings for one Image and get the settings are right as you can. In the Object Styles you can assign a ShortCut to that style, as you edit the text and are moving through the document you can apply the anchored object style via the keyboard short cut.

    This will keep the images in the order they appear in the Word file. But I strongly urge you to try get a hold of the original files.

    If you can't you might try the PDF effort by making the word file a PDF and in Acrobat Profession use the export all images from the PDF and then you can place them at your leisure, you can then forego the importing of Inline images to the Indesign document.

  • November 19, 2009 at 2:40 pm #53830
    DavidM

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    Many thanks for your replies.

    I do have some of the images as JPG files, which I am using, but the author did not provide them all. I like Hank's PDF idea and will give it a try.

  • November 19, 2009 at 3:48 pm #53831
    Anonymous

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    Yeh but the images will be pants coming from Word. (there are some exceptions though)

  • November 19, 2009 at 3:55 pm #53832
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Pants? Don't know that phrase.

    DavidM: One of the best ways to get images out of Word is to export the Word document as HTML. That should give you a folder full of the images. Then import those manually into InDesign, using Place or drag-and-drop.

  • November 19, 2009 at 4:36 pm #53836
    Anonymous

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    You teach us InDesign, I'll teach you cool slang terms

    All these years I've been exporting images out of PDF and all I had to do was make it html. Sigh. David FTW

    OOH actually – I recently had a map – not sure what format it was in, but when I made the PDF from word, I could open it Illustrator and it was all vector – I was genuinely surprised.

    That was handy. So PDF route for somethings, I suppose.

  • November 19, 2009 at 11:32 pm #53843
    jools

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    For Mac users FileJuicer is also a good way at getting at any images included in Word (and other file types) and is quicker. You just dump the Word file on the FileJuicer window and it 'juices' it, creating a folder with sub-folders containing any content it finds grouped by file format. You can dump multiple files on FileJuicer at the same time too. Most of the time you'll get the image added to Word in full resolution and vector files are usually found as emf/wmf, which you can open in illustrator. Occasionally it gives you a png rather than a jpg, but that may have been the original embedded file format too.

    What it can't find is drawings made with the drawing tools in Word (for that you have to make a PDF and open that page in illustrator) but they invariably need redrawing from scratch anyway.

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