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!!

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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designs in
> Fireworks.
> I have an HR page that has photos that get updated all
the time (lots of
> turnover I guess) and I'm not really a Fireworks guys
(use Photoshop) and
> I've
> kinda figured out that there is a ".mno" (I think that's
what it is) file
> that
> stores the metadata to show where the .gif or .jpg was
made from the
> Fireworks
> .png file.
>
> I guess my question is, in matters of workflow, how do I
efficiently set
> up a
> .PNG file (from scratch) that saves its slices in either
.jpg or .gif,
> with the
> "here is the path to the original .png" flag so when I
come back to
> editing the
> .html in DW, I can see a flag that says "find the
original .png on Hard
> Drive
> 2"?
>
> I just did a search on OSX Spotlight for the image file
and it came up
> with
> the same named file as .mno or something like that. When
I opened that as
> a
> text doc, it gave a path, which fortunately helped me
find the original
> .png
> this time, so I didn't need to rebuild the image from
scratch. I did this
> through the "back door" of using OSX's search function.
>
> There are times I'm so busy, I need to find stuff fast.
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> original
> .pngs from .jpg/.gif images made in Fireworks, easily?
>
> How do I set up a good workflow from FW to DW?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> nick
>

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