Finding origin of an image

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Finding origin of an image

Is it possible in Pages '09 (or any other word document program for that matter) to find the source file of an image you've already inserted into the document? For instance, we have several files of our company logo in different formats (tiff, jpeg, high res, low res, etc), which all look virtually identical at a certain size, however they print drastically differently. I'm trying to find out if there's a way to open up the Pages document I've inserted the logo in, select the image and say something like 'find source' or 'find origin' and hoping it would tell me the actual file name on my computer.

Does that command exist?? Could it maybe exist in the future?? I'm having the same problem in iWeb, with images showing up in iWeb '09 but then not showing up in Safari, and I'd like to know if these are all tiff files, jpegs of a certain image, etc.

Thank you!!

MacBook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 17, 2009 11:32 AM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 17, 2009 11:45 AM in response to Lizziemax

Lizziemax wrote:
Is it possible in Pages '09 (or any other word document program for that matter) to find the source file of an image you've already inserted into the document? For instance, we have several files of our company logo in different formats (tiff, jpeg, high res, low res, etc), which all look virtually identical at a certain size, however they print drastically differently. I'm trying to find out if there's a way to open up the Pages document I've inserted the logo in, select the image and say something like 'find source' or 'find origin' and hoping it would tell me the actual file name on my computer.

Does that command exist??

In Pages, the responce is No. There is no need for such a command as the file is stored in the Pages's document itself.

Could it maybe exist in the future??

Here we are end users like you.
If one of us is aware of Apple's projects, he is under Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) so, he will not respond to this kind of question.

I'm having the same problem in iWeb, with images showing up in iWeb '09 but then not showing up in Safari, and I'd like to know if these are all tiff files, jpegs of a certain image, etc.

I'm really surprised. I am unable to guess which kind of picturte file may be displayed by iWeb but not by Safari .

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 17 décembre 2009 20:44:41

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Answer 2

Dec 18, 2009 10:58 AM in response to Lizziemax

Using an old version of Pages, it is fairly easy to find the format of the file:

1. Activate Finder and locate the file.

2. Right click (or ctrl-click) on the file.

3. In the pop up menu select "Show Package Content".

4. In the Finder window that comes up, locate the image files. They will be there as embedded in the Pages file.

If you have MS Word, you can actually insert pictures as links to the original file without embedding them in the word document. You can reveal the link by going to Edit > Links (in MS Word 2004). However, inserting pictures just as links is questionable. If you move the file or mail it, you may lose the link to the original pictures.

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