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I believe I have tried this strategy. The issue with this is that I really don't like using Word's drawing tools. They are basically the same as PowerPoint. We have both on our "acceptable applications" list, but I find it hard to do things like extend a line from the center of an elipse, then trim it at the edge of the elipse, or trim off a portion of a circle. Also, I just tried to insert a quick test drawing into FrameMaker to see how it did. I did a very simple drawing with a screen shot, a circle and a lind on top of the bitmap, extending out into white space. I selected the grouped objects then right-clicked my mouse, which gave me an option to "save as picture," which I did, saving it as a .png file (generally a good format for me). When I inserted it into FrameMaker, the white space within the image was black.
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> Do you have Word installed on your machine? You can keep a dummy
> document where you paste in the graphics, and add the callouts with
> Word drawing tools.
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> Then if you save the whole mess as HTML (yes, using Save As HTML!), I
> believe Word will save the combo drawing as a raster graphic. I don't
> have a copy of Word handy, but I believe the later versions will allow
> you to configure the format (png/jpg/gif, etc) and possibly even
> control the resolution. I don't know how high quality this output would
> be; you'd have to test it.
>
> Mike O.
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