03-09-2007, 04:26 PM
Ditto on the PDF conversion...
I do this frequently to figures for books that are submitted by authors who only know the MS apps. Convert the Word (or Powerpoint or Excel) file to a PDF, then open the PDF in Illustrator. You may need to clean up stray invisible artifacts that come through from Word, but at least all of the line art and text will be editable. Much easier than redrawing from scratch!
I do this frequently to figures for books that are submitted by authors who only know the MS apps. Convert the Word (or Powerpoint or Excel) file to a PDF, then open the PDF in Illustrator. You may need to clean up stray invisible artifacts that come through from Word, but at least all of the line art and text will be editable. Much easier than redrawing from scratch!