Re: AW: Question: Are embedded objects (in .doc-file) lost after converting to .txt?

Well, we don't support embedded OLE objects like wordart, excel sheets,
or the shapes you can add in Word. If you can't get images in the docx
file type, please try just opening them, and in either case, please put
the results on http://bugzilla.abisource.com as it would seem that
images are not supported properly yet in the docx import.

With doc, if you put an image (not a different object) in, it should
export. If that isn't working, please file another bug with a sample
doc so we can figure it out.

Thanks! Hope this helps!

Ryan

Tobias Kopp wrote:
> Well, good idea indeed. It's a shame I didn't get it on my own ;-). Thank you, Ryan!
> However, it doesn't seem to work at all with the .docx-filetype and even with .doc it only seems to work with images I embedded. If I insert a word-symbol (just like a circle or something like that) or an excel-sheet, they do not appear in the directory the image appears in. So which inserted file-types are supported and can be exported as "additional files" by converting to html?
> (OS is WinXP, if it does matter ...)
>
> Best regards!
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ryan Pavlik [mailto:abiryan@ryand.net]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. August 2008 16:33
> An: Tobias Kopp
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Betreff: Re: Question: Are embedded objects (in .doc-file) lost after converting to .txt?
>
> Tobias Kopp wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I hope someone can help me with my question. I am using AbiWord mainly
>> to convert .doc-files or .docx-files to .txt-files which is very easily
>> possible via DOS-commands.
>> If one of my doc-files contains an embedded object (just like a clipart,
>> an image, an excel-table or anything like that ...), it can't be
>> exported in a txt-file of course. Well, this is the behavior intented by
>> me, but I would be very happy if there's a possibility that the embedded
>> objects aren't "lost" but saved in an extra file. So after converting a
>> doc-file with an embedded bmp-file, I would like to have the txt-file
>> with the text from the doc-file and an additional bmp-file which
>> contains the embedded bitmap.
>> Is there any possibility (some plugin, option or something like this) my
>> wish can be realized with AbiWord?
>>
>> I'm very happy and thankful about any response! :-)
>>
>
> Not with a text file, but if you export as HTML images are exported into
> a folder with a related name to your exported file. If you need those
> images, it might be in your best interest to "export twice", or just use
> the HTML.
>
> Ryan
>

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