Command-line utilities to convert between graphic formats I have found useful:
- eps to pdf: ps2pdf with -dEPSCrop option to produce the pdf “bounding box”
- epstopdf (part of texlive package). Seems better than the above, automatically uses bounding box and respects orientation.
- convert is a command-line tool to convert among various formats. Very easy basic usage (assumes target format from file extension). Part of ImageMagic.
- pdftk is a tool to manipulate pdf files (split, join and much more).
Extracting images from MSWord documents
The best way is to save the document as web page (from the File menu) and look in the directory for the image files.
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