Getting a vector image out of a word document

[David Rowland]

think u find some in the file swapping area.

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

[John Childs]

A simple cut and paste sometimes works.

[John Harding]

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

John

[Robert Berwick]

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]

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]

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]

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

ps. ‘Pro draw’ rocks!! :lol1:

[Robert Berwick]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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