

I think they get anchored in the place the cursor was at when the person who made the Word file imported the image, but where that image actually ends up in the InDesign doc is another matter – it’s often completely off the pasteboard.įor the ‘inline’ images, I select one of the images, right click, and change the image anchoring options so that it’s set ‘above the line’, and then change the spacing options to where it looks ok. When it comes to ‘floating’ images in Word, it’s a bit more of a shitshow, I’m afraid. Any ‘inline’ images in Word will import placed in their own paragraph, but have no space before them, so (as you have seen) overlay the text in the paragraphs above. They do not encode information that is specific to the application software, hardware, or operating system used to create or view the document.Yeah, images importing with Word files don’t import that well. A PDF file can be any length, contain any number of fonts and images and is designed to enable the creation and transfer of printer-ready output.Įach PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2D document (and, with the advent of Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images and 2D vector graphics that compose the document.

PDF is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing documents in a manner that is separate from the original operating system, application or hardware from where it was originally created.

Thus, the data can pass through corporate firewalls without hindrance. In addition, security concerns are drastically reduced because the information is stored in XML, which is essentially plain text. Users can also use standard transformations to extract or repurpose the data. The application does not need to be a Microsoft product it can be any application. Any application that supports XML can access and work with data in the new file format. DOCX extends what is possible with the binary files of earlier versions. However to open it using any Microsoft Word that predated 2007 would require DOCX to be converted into a normal doc format.ĭOCX improves file and data management and data recovery. The benefit of having open XML is that it is able to be read by applications, platforms and Internet Platforms. DOCX was introduced with Microsoft Word 2007, it's based on open XML and uses ZIP compression for smaller file sizes.
