document to ftp with photos

[Chuck Bonnaffon]

Greetings to the newsgroup:
I have been trying without success to upload a Word
document with photos (saved as web doc)to an ftp site.
The text appears but the photos do not. The microsoft
support site tells me:

NOTE: If you publish to an FTP site, you must save
graphics, pictures, and so on to the Web site as well.
Microsoft Word does not automatically download images or
graphics when you save as a Web page to an FTP site.

How exactly do I do that so that the image files relate
to the main document? Should the main file be named
index.html? I have tried just about every permutation.
Thanks Chuck

 

[Linda]

What I always do is create the picture as a separate file
(example name pix1.jpg) You have to have pictures as a
jpg file from what I understand. Then you need to upload
the pix1.jpg onto the ftp separately from your other page.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you save a document as a Web page, any graphic object you have in the
document (including WordArt, equations, etc.) is saved out as a separate
file. By default, these are saved in a separate subfolder named
<WebPageName_files. By default, they are named Image001.jpg, Image002.jpg,
Image001.gif, etc. When you publish the document to your FTP site, you must
also publish this subfolder. By default, you'll want to preserve the folder
structure. Where the process breaks down is that if you reopen the Web page
in Word, Word "corrects" all the file paths for the graphics from relative
ones to absolute ones--referring to their location on your hard drive.
<sigh> The only way around this I found was to keep the original file as a
Word document and resave it as a Web page after each change, then FTP it
without reopening (the path morphing occurs on opening, not on saving, so
this works).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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