Maintaining image quality in FrameMaker and RoboHelp

Can someone tell me how I can maintain image quality in my Word documents in FrameMaker 11 while importing the documents into RoboHelp 10?  Basically, I will be importing Word (help) documents into FrameMaker 11 (hoping to maintain the image quality) then importing those documents in FM to RoboHelp 10 to publish.  Please help.

Well, we have tried multiple times to import our Word files directly into RH in which the images were not satisfactory.  So after going round and round with this...FrameMaker was introduces as a way to solve our image concerns.  However, I do agree with you...it is very cumbersome.  I just want to keep the higher ups pleased.

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