Reuse embedded vector graphics

I wan to reuse embedded vector graphics from FM documents in MS Office and OpenOffice.
I found the Linux tool mif2xfig which works only for MIF 4.0.
http://www2.cs.unibw.de/alumni/Ansgar/mif2xfig/
FrameMaker > Print to PDF > Import PDF in OpenOffice Draw -> Save selection as EPS
is my current procedure.
Any ideas?

What vector graphics formats do those apps support?
There have been at least 2 FrameScript or plug-in tools for exporting FM graphics discussed here over the years, but the only one for which I found a link, the link was stale.
For small numbers of such embeds, I normally open the PDF page in Illustrator, and delete all the page content except the image elements of interest. Save as EPS, PDF or SVG, depending on target app support for vector imports.
Acrobat Pro has the ability to export all images in a PDF, but as of 9.0, only to raster format. We have XI, but I haven't checked to see if that feature's been enhanced.

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- exported the file in illustrator as swf and imported that swf into flash
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I rather use vector as much as possible. For a banner for examle, I've imported vector images of trees. I couldn't get it below 40 kb so I exported all illustrator files to png files which helped. Can detailed vector images be optimized just as much? Or is it better to use bitmap files when it comes to more detailed graphics? Does it matter if it is a vector images made in flash or a imported vector file even if both have the same number of paths?
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There is a certain threshold when a bitmap can actually be smaller than a detailed vector graphic. Especially when working on small image sizes, bitmaps can often be quite smaller.
For a vector graphic, you can't do more than reducing the number of vertexes which may result in a poorer graphic.
With bitmaps, you can do a lot more:
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The same is valid for a white logo on a black background: Use the "add" blending mode instead, then.
I have also written some Photoshop Plugins to reduce the alpha-channel bit-resolution which sometimes gives me the extra 3-4kb I needed. Instead of using 256 shades of alpha, it reduces them to maybe 8 or 16. Alpha-Channels are comressed like GIF/PNG images inside of flash, so having as few different shades of alpha as possible will make images smaller. I even use dithering sometimes for softer alpha areas.
In some rare cases, you can also gain some bytes if you convert text to vector graphics (pressing CTRL-B twice), but this only works when there's not much text at all. That's because the metric information for text glyphs take up a bit more space then just the shapes. So you can imagine that this may only work if there is just one text element with all different letters. So you won't get much size reduction by converting "abracadabra". But you will get some reduction if you convert "the quick brown fox jumps" into shapes.
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> I'm using Framemaker 10, Autodesk Illustrator Publisher, Inkscape, Windows Vista.
Is Adobe Illustrator available?
> I have imported some CAD illustrations from Autodesk Illustrator into Illustrator Publisher. There I have labelled them.
Why not label them in Frame? We do, and it has advantages beyond avoiding text rendering and scaling issues, such as being able to re-use the same illustration for multiple purposes with different callouts. We use embedded callouts in our service manuals (the XML engine requires it), and depopulate the callouts (usually just switching off one layer) for re-use of that art in the Frame manuals.
> I have then saved/published them as .svg files.
Let me admit that I have no experience with SVG, due to lack of SVG support across all of our workflow, but we use vector EPS extensively.
> If I import them directly in to Framemaker, they open with the callouts at a strange angle and 3/4 of the picture missing. Therefore I have to open them in Inkscape, bring the whole picture in to frame and line up the callouts.
If SVG has preview/thumbnail embedded images, is there a chance that this is just a preview problem? What happens at print or render to PDF?
> Now I import them into Framemaker. The trouble is, the numbering is difficult to predict. The labelling/callouts/numbering always turns what looks to be bold. But the real problem is resizing the illustrations.
This is one of the downsides of embedded callouts. If the images cannot be pre-sized, either the text will scale arbitrarily, which is ugly, or it won't scale, which is a disaster. More bad news - your stroke weights are scaling too.
> Because there is no way of predicting the size of the output from ...
I would junk any image editor, vector or raster, that didn't provide that basic level of output control.
> Does anyone else use Vector graphics in their manuals?
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