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Originally Posted by fritz_the_blank
Hello and thank you to all for your help.
Knowing that pdf conversion will not provide images clears up one of the problems. I have been working with a .doc file from .chm, and things are getting better with the following caveats:
1) I had to leve links in or else the pictures would not show. That is strange given that the images are contained within the document, but perhaps that is the way Word references them even within a self-contained document
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Links to an external picture is just one way that Word deals with pictures. In this case that is a function of the CHM to Word conversion program that you have used rather than Word. If you were to replace the links with the actual pictures (a lot of work depending on the document) then the BD conversion would be smoother.
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Originally Posted by fritz_the_blank
2) with some settings, and I haven't isolated them yet, the pictures do no appear in the text where they should, i.e., a bunch appear together before long blocks of text, and then another bunch of pictures and etc.
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This depends on the way the formatting of the picture element in Word is set. (Sorry for repeating the common.) You may have better luck with the picture placement in BD.
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Originally Posted by fritz_the_blank
As far as importing from Word goes, am I better off checking the preserve formatting or to reformat completely? Does anybody have a list of settings that converts a .doc into a .lrf that includes pictures and maintains a reasonable semblance of the formatting (given, of course, that it needs to reflow the text to accomodate the smaller page sizes)?
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This is the old "it depends" answer. Since each file (and converter) has its own properties the answer that worked for one file last week may not work for another file today. Experiment. Do not be afraid to try. The cost of failure is small and the results will be back to you faster than this answer was.
Good luck Fritz.