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Getting a vector image out of a word document

Posted by Robert Berwick on 27 February 2006 at 14:36

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have been given our ISO9001 accreditation logo as a word document. It is a vector image, but I can’t work out how to get the image out of the .doc format into a useable .ai or .eps format.

Has anyone come across this before and managed to extract the image into something useful?

I’m using Office 2000.

Thanks

Robert

Alan Drury replied 19 years, 7 months ago 9 Members · 12 Replies
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David Rowland

Member
27 February 2006 at 14:43

think u find some in the file swapping area.

I print normally from word to Acrobat Pro… then read with corel.
John Childs

Member
27 February 2006 at 14:58

A simple cut and paste sometimes works.
John Harding

Member
27 February 2006 at 15:05

A vector image in a word document not heard of that must be a bitmap I reckon

John
Robert Berwick

Member
27 February 2006 at 15:15

No – definately not a bitmap. I’ve scaled it to over A3 and zoomed into 500% in word and theres no pixelation. Its got nodes too.

Can’t copy/paste 🙁

Dave, if I posted this up do you think you could have a go at pdf’ing it for me? (Sorry to be so cheeky)

Regards

Robert
George Zerbino

Member
27 February 2006 at 15:37

Using Word and Coreldraw:

In word, select all and copy.

Go to Coreldraw, and on the menu bar select “edit”, then down to “paste special”

In the pop-up window, select “picture (metafile)”

Job done!
Robert Berwick

Member
27 February 2006 at 16:00

Thanks for all the suggestions. Geoz – I don’t use corel – only illustrator and an OLD program called professional draw. Thanks anyway.

I’ve overcome it by using Acrobat 4.0! It let me set the postscript options to EPS (Encapsulated Post Script) within the advanced options which will get me round it. It didn’t do the font because I don’t have the correct one on my system but thats easy to do with a similar one. Thanks to Dave Rowland for the suggestion. (I had thought about this but didn’t think 4.0 would do vectors in pdf so I hadn’t bothered looking)

Regards

Robert
David Rogers

Member
27 February 2006 at 19:44

It could have been a WMF (Windows Meta File) Vector image.

ps. ‘Pro draw’ rocks!! :lol1:
Robert Berwick

Member
28 February 2006 at 19:44

David

I can’t believe someone else knows Pro Draw!!!

I agree however it does rock. I’ve used it for about 15 years now and can create many things MUCH quicker and more accurately in it than in Illustrator. Its a real shame that Gold Disk never updated the program.

Robert
David Rogers

Member
28 February 2006 at 22:33

There was an ‘update’ in Dec ’92. Still version 1.0a though.

I believe it was bought over and ‘swept under the carpet’ by Corel corporation…as it was better than their offering of the time.

Yeh, the pantone matching, vector imaging & gradient fading is still impressive, (and easily exportable!) Waaaay faster than anything currently out.
Peter Normington

Member
28 February 2006 at 22:44

Talking about swept under the carpet, I remember a graphic prog, about 10+ years ago, was far better than corel, the firm was based in watford, but was bought out by corel, cant remember the name, But it was possible to zoom into one pixel, and embed a picture or message, in the pixel.
dont know if that was real, or percieved?

anyways I will have to go and sift through my old discs now, just to find out what it was called.

Peter
Phill Fenton

Member
28 February 2006 at 23:43

Peter – “a message in a pixel” 🙄 youre having a flashback from one of you’re LSD trips back in your Hippy days :lol1:
Alan Drury

Member
1 March 2006 at 08:29

Peter, I think you may mean Xara a very fast illustration programme, the marketing was licenced to Corel for a while but is now back in UK hands, it is marketed as Xara Extreme with some web spin offs – not expensive see videos etx at http://www.xara.co.uk
Alan D