Export Word to gif/jpg

Does anyone know of any free solutions to export from MS word to gif/jpg?

UlsterFry wrote:

Does anyone know of any free solutions to export from MS word to gif/jpg?

If you're using Office 2003 you can print to the Microsoft Document Imaging format (which is basically a TIFF file), pretty much any image convertor worth having should be able to change that into a JPEG or GIF file.

I'd looked at the MS document image printer but like you said, it exports as Tiff's.

Problem is, it's for use with end users and I don't want them having to save as one format, load into another program, then convert and save as new format..

UlsterFry wrote:

I'd looked at the MS document image printer but like you said, it exports as Tiff's.

Problem is, it's for use with end users and I don't want them having to save as one format, load into another program, then convert and save as new format..

W3bbo wrote:

UlsterFry wrote:I'd looked at the MS document image printer but like you said, it exports as Tiff's. Problem is, it's for use with end users and I don't want them having to save as one format, load into another program, then convert and save as new format..

You could automate it.

Simple enough:

Open Photoshop and create a Droplet that converts TIFFs to PNGs.

Open Word, create a VBA Macro that saves the document to TIFF, then fires up the Droplet with the path to the image as the program argument.

Problem solved.

I don't think installing Photoshop is going to be a cheap option.

Various people sell JPEG printer drivers, no idea how well any of them work though, as I've never tried them. There might be a similar free tool somewhere, but I can't find one at the moment.

UlsterFry wrote:

Yes, but your assumming the end user has photoshop installed,  they don't

What version of PS did this "Droplet" thing appear in? Maybe it's time for me to upgrade (or read the manual)...

amotif wrote:

What version of PS did this "Droplet" thing appear in? Maybe it's time for me to upgrade (or read the manual)...

PDFCreator can export to various image formats and is free.

As an alternative, there is Paint.Net for free download. This is a very fine and light imaging application which may substitute Windows Paint over the .NET Framework (I have meet it through a link given somewhere here at C9 by Jamie).

What I have alrready tested is copying the image from Word to the clipboard, then paste it onto Paint.Net and finally, save as (export) one of the bit map formats supported: png, jpg, gif, bmp or tiff.

Tonatiúh

I think I'll bury my head in some books/websites and write an office add-in..   wish me luck

Thanks for the help guys.

Sometimes the simplest solutions are right under our noses... in the form of powerpoint....

copy/paste the document/info into powerpoint... or set up the whole page in there to begin with....

Save_as.... jpg...  done.

Tonatiúh wrote:

As an alternative, there is Paint.Net for free download. This is a very fine and light imaging application which may substitute Windows Paint over the .NET Framework (I have meet it through a link given somewhere here at C9 by Jamie).

What I have alrready tested is copying the image from Word to the clipboard, then paste it onto Paint.Net and finally, save as (export) one of the bit map formats supported: png, jpg, gif, bmp or tiff.

Tonatiúh

public static bool CreateThumb(FileInfo ToThumb, DirectoryInfo SaveTo, int WidthInPixels, string ThumbNailSuffix)

Regex R = new Regex("(bmp|jpeg|jpg|gif|tiff|png)$", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

if (ToThumb.Exists)

if (R.IsMatch(ToThumb.FullName))

using (Image IMG = Image.FromFile(ToThumb.FullName))

GraphicsUnit GU = GraphicsUnit.Pixel;

RectangleF Bounds = IMG.GetBounds(ref GU);

if (WidthInPixels > Bounds.Width)

WidthInPixels = (int)Bounds.Width;

int HeightInPixels = (int)((WidthInPixels/Bounds.Width)*Bounds.Height);

using (Image Thumb = IMG.GetThumbnailImage(WidthInPixels, HeightInPixels, null, IntPtr.Zero))

int FinalInstanceOfPeriod = ToThumb.Name.LastIndexOf('.');

string FinalPath = string.Format("{0}/{1}", SaveTo.FullName, ToThumb.Name.Insert(FinalInstanceOfPeriod, ThumbNailSuffix));

return true;

Necro-thread alert!

There's actually a simpler solution to exporting the images from word - simply save it as an html, and look into the directory it created Oh, and the pictures are saved in their original form (so if you cropped or resized it, it'll still be like it was ..). Regards, Tadej

pdfcreator

print any document to jpeg,pdf, tiff,png,bmp,pcx,ps,eps - custom setting for each output type

uses the ghostsctipt library