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Subject:RE: inserting Word .docs as graphics From:Jeroen Dekker <Jeroen -at- Square1 -dot- nl> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:20:14 +0100
A good way to get documents out of Word and towards a graphics format is to
print it 'to file' to a printer format, for example PostScript or PDF. That
gives you the whole form as it would look on paper, including your headers
and footers. If a raster image format like TIFF suffices for your needs,
then you could open the PDF in Acrobat and export it as such. Don't use
JPEG, it is not well suited for content like forms.
If you want the form to remain scalable and editable, then you might want to
consider our (commercial) ps2vector software to batch convert the PostScript
files to WMF (Windows Metafile), the native vector format of MS Office. You
can simply import these into your document, scale them to fit your page
without losing quality or sharpness, edit graphical elements and text
strings if needed. In a vector format, your forms will render at optimal
quality to any size/resolution screen or printer. These things are lost when
going with bitmap-based solutions like screen capture, scanning etc.
Jeroen Dekker
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The challenge is to skip the cumbersome scanning phase and somehow insert
the form files as graphics.
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