Posted By: UlsterFry | Sep 19th, 2005 @ 3:29 AM
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UlsterFry
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Does anyone know of any free solutions to export from MS word to gif/jpg?
W3bbo
W3bbo
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UlsterFry wrote:
Does anyone know of any free solutions to export from MS word to gif/jpg?


Not directly, but here's a quick hack:

Word -> Acrobat -> PDF - > Acrobat -> JPEG/GIF/PNG


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.
W3bbo
W3bbo
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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. Smiley

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.
W3bbo
W3bbo
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UlsterFry wrote:
Yes, but your assumming the end user has photoshop installed,  they don't Sad


They don't though Smiley

A Photoshop Droplet is an *.exe program that Photoshop creates that works by "drag and dropping" (hence the name) a file on it, which then executes with this argument, usually performing some conversion operation or image-creation or something.
amotif
amotif
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What version of PS did this "Droplet" thing appear in? Maybe it's time for me to upgrade (or read the manual)...


W3bbo
W3bbo
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amotif wrote:
What version of PS did this "Droplet" thing appear in? Maybe it's time for me to upgrade (or read the manual)...


Since version 6.0 according to this website.
sbc
sbc
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PDFCreator can export to various image formats and is free.
Tonatiúh
Tonatiúh
Cuali itcha a cosamalot
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
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.
odujosh
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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


GDI+ can convert a Tiff to anything. Why waste your time with a third party? (free or not)

http://bobpowell.net/faqmain.htm

here is a sample (from a bigger program thats been in production for a year and half, so it works GRIN):

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));

Thumb.Save(FinalPath);

}

}

return true;

}

}

Sven Groot
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TadejK
TadejK
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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 Wink 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
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