Convert RTFD to Doc (without losing images)

Hello!

Is it possible to convert RTFD-format files to Microsoft Word (doc) format - without losing images?

As a longtime Mac user, I have a multitude of RTF and RTFD files. I want to be able to access the contents of these files on platforms other than OS X (eg: Windows).

RTFD is not supported outside OS X. I'll qualify this by acknowleding that since RTFD files are OS X Packages, they show up in Windows as a folder containing image files and an RTF file; some people conclude that this is acceptable since, strictly speaking, its readable by windows. I disagree because its fiddly and hack-like rather than simple, recognizable and practical like a .doc file.

Given that I can open an RTFD file, copy/paste it's content (images and text) to a new blank Microsoft Word document and save it as .doc, it seems to me that I should be able to automate those steps using AppleScript or Automator.

I've Googled for a solution to this but no-one else is talking about it, with the exception of:

- the command-line 'textutil' converter, but that creates ascii files that are necessarily stripped of all images

- converting to HTML, but that creates more than a single file (an HTML file plus a folder containing the images)

Am I missing something really obvious?

Many thanks!

Peter