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deepspace9
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May 16, 2011
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Is there any way to convert the ImportObject into an image file ?

  • May 16, 2011
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I have converted a FM document into MIF file format. FM has a grapic imported by copying into the document. In the MIF file I can see the image like the following,

<ImportObject

  <Unique 1001019>

  <Pen 15>

  <Fill 7>

  <PenWidth  1.0 pt>

=TIFF

&%v

&II*\x00080000001000FE000400010000000000000000010300010000006009000001010300010000…..

Is there any way to convert the ImportObject inside the mif file into an image file ?

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    Anonymous
    May 17, 2011

    If for some reason extracting the image from a PDF does not work as desired, you could open the mif file in FM and do Save As RTF format then open the file in Word. In Word, click on the picture and right click, choose "Save as Picture" to extract the picture from there.

    I just tested a PNG in FM and it was exported to the RTF as PNG and it exported from Word as a PNG, so hopefully that same process would accommodate a jpeg image.

    FM's RTF export filter may change the resolution of the graphic, though, but it's worth testing.

    edit: When doing the Save As Picture in Word, there's a dropdown menu at the bottom that will let you choose several different formats, among them .jpg.

    Message was edited by: Sheila Carlisle

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 16, 2011

    I have converted a FM document into MIF file  format.

    Why?

    FM has a graphic imported by copying into the document.

    Do you still have the originally imported image file?

    What format is it?

    In the  MIF file I can see the image like the following,

    <ImportObject

    ...

    =TIFF

    &II*\x00080000001000FE000400010000000000000000010300010000006009000001 010300010000…..

    Sounds like that's a raster object.

    Is there any way to convert the ImportObject inside the mif file into an image file ?

    What format image file?

    What is it that you need to do?

    deepspace9
    deepspace9Author
    Participant
    May 17, 2011

    I don’t have original image. I have only FM file. I want to convert the image into JPEG format.

    Van Kurtz
    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    May 17, 2011

    Try printing the file, or just the page containing the image, to PDF; but be sure to set the PDF job options to an option that does NOT compress bitmaps in anyway. If one is not available, edit an existing job option to turn off image compression and color management.

    You can then open the PDF file with Acrobat Professional (or maybe Standard may do) and export the image as tiff or bmp (Advanced > Document Processing > Export All Images). Before you click Save, click the Settings button to view all the export options to make sure there is no compression selected. DO NOT select jpeg as the export option; it compresses the image.

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