I have a Word document with a large number of embedded images. To make version control easier I would like to save the document as XML and store all images separately (linked).
In the docx format the images are stored separately inside the zip, but I have not yet found a way to use those files uncompressed.
I have extracted the files from .docx (by renaming it to .zip). Then I saved my document as Word XML and in a text editor I've removed the <pkg:package> elements containing the binary data of the images and added the tag TargetMode="External" to the <Relationship> elements. Adding the TargetMode was quite easy using a search & replace because all images were named media/image....
After that I discovered that .gif files were saved as .png in the docx, so I had to change the extensions of those files in the xml.
For Word 2013 you also need to change the tags <a:embed ... to <a:link ... for it to work (with relative paths).
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