Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Can I have the actual graphic please?

The bane of a web developer - you ask the client to send you their logo or whatever and in return you get a Word Document with an embedded picture.

Worse yet the person I asked is a graphics professional - I suppose he's just used to sending them out like that to accommodate his clients.

4 comments:

Orphi said...

Phhahahahaha!

Seriously though. I wonder what format Word actually stores this data in…

FlipC said...

In this instance it was a diagram I was after that would have been created as a vector.

Just in case he'd embedded an EMF or the like I saved the document as a web page to natively extract the image. It was a GIF.

Orphi said...

To be fair, even if it was a vector, Word would probably have converted it to a GIF if you asked for a web page. After all, web browsers only support GIF and JPEG, right?

RIGHT??

FlipC said...

Supposedly in that instance Word will create a vector and a raster image; which makes sense given that Word would have to understand the vector format in order to display it in the first place and can thus save it natively.