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#### 31.2.3.4 Exporting embedded graphics before converting

By default, Mif2Go exports from your FrameMaker document all embedded graphics (except WMF, BMP, or FrameImage), and saves them as separate external graphics files. Mif2Go exports the graphics in their original format, whatever that was; there is no setting to change the format.

If the graphics are not already in an appropriate format, you can inspect the exported files, if necessary alter or replace them, and use configuration-file settings to map the old embedded graphics to the newly exported graphics files. This can make your conversion project a three-step process:

1. Run Mif2Go to export embedded graphics as separate files; see §31.2.3.5 Setting export options for all embedded graphics.

2. Examine the exported files. If the graphics are not in an appropriate format, or you want to rescale them, use a third-party graphics program to alter or replace the graphics; see §5.7.2.3 Using third-party graphics converters. Or, you can try having Mif2Go use FrameMaker export filters to convert them; see §31.2.5 Converting graphics with FrameMaker export filters.

3. Run Mif2Go again, specifying a mapping from the embedded graphics to the alternate graphics; see §31.3 Replacing and relocating graphics files.

Even if you are not going to use the graphics, exporting them first speeds up processing of the rest of your document.

If you are going to use the graphics, name clashes are likely; see §5.7.4.2 Naming files produced from embedded graphics. It is better to take the newly exported graphics files, give them proper names, and go back into FrameMaker and import them by reference in place of the original embedded images; then run the conversion again. Think of it as a way to atone for past sins of importing by copying.