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Peter T. Daniels Peter T. Daniels is offline
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Default finding a graphic's pathname?

My project was created on a Mac (FrameMaker 4, not that it matters),
and in transporting it over to Windows, the files work fine in both
FrameMaker 7.2 and Word2007 -- except that the graphic files are
invisible, because the extensions got chopped off all their filenames.

If I type the extension into the filename, there's no problem
recognizing them. (I think most of them are .tif's.)

The problem is that most of them were resized to fit inside tables
(either as parts of charts, or because a 1-column, 2-row table was a
convenient way to keep an illustration and caption together),
Presumably the resizing information is retained in the conversion from
Frame to Word; but the file path is, obviously, different.

It seems to me that if I can substitute the new pathname for the old
pathname in the new Word file, it should be able to open the
(relabeled) graphics at exactly the old size and cropping, so all that
work needn't be done again.

So, is there a way to view the pathname of a graphic that currently
shows up as a gray box with the note something like "Word cannot
display certain graphics" -- and then substitute the correct new
pathname? (I tried right-clicking on the box and didn't get
"Properties" or whatever, so I ended up deleting my trial example and
re-inserting the image.)