RE: changing images from 'copy into document' to 'import by reference'

["BJA" <bashley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy's right of course but I'd first question the size of your graphics.
I'd also question the link -v- embed argument.

Having lost hundreds of graphics over the years in legacy documents because
the graphics directories were not subs of the doc directories, or because
some knob only backed-up the doc directory or because system admin did a
'clean-up', I ONLY embed.

Yes, on a rare occasion it would have helped to link rather than embed, but
these are very rare occurrences. With an average graphic file size of only
20Kb (full screen capture is only 45Kb or so in .gif format), file size IS
NOT an issue, particularly given how large the hard-drives are these days.
If your graphic files are larger than this, I suggest you need something
like Photoshop to down-sample them or convert them from .bmp/.eps etc to
.gif/.png.

Also, version control requires that once a document is released, it cannot
be changed so linking serves no purpose.

And finally, if you have a lot of redundant graphics throughout your
document, I'd suggest you need better screen capture utilities to capture
only the relevant parts of a dialog (instead of continuing to show the full
dialog) or you need to change the way you structure your information.

My .02.

Cheers,

Bruce Ashley




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Jeremy H. Griffith
Sent: Sunday, 17 October 2004 5:47 AM
To: framers@xxxxxxxxx; framers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hjong@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: changing images from 'copy into document' to 'import by
reference'


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:47:53 +0200, hjong@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>is there a way to do this? I've inherited some documents with loads of
images copied into
>them, making the files large and unwieldy. I'd like to 'export' all the
images from the
>document, and have them imported by reference instead.

Yes.  Mif2Go will do that for you, losslessly.  Since Frame
doesn't keep the original names, the graphics will come out
named with the first four letters of the filename, plus a
four-digit number, like chap0001.gif.  (You can change the
number of letters and digits used if you prefer, to keep
all the names distinct.)  Set Up for Standard HTML (or any
other HTML/XML format you please), then in mif2htm.ini, set:

[GraphExport]
ImportGraphics=Export
; ExportNameChars = chars from base file name to use in export file names
ExportNameChars=4
; ExportNumDigits = number of digits to use in export file names
ExportNumDigits=4

After you run, open each Frame file and go through it; at
each imported graphic, select the image (not the frame it's
in) and then use File | Import | File to replace it with
the corresponding graphics file.  You may want to rename
the graphics files first, so that you have a better idea
of which one to choose.  Then save the .fm, and go on to
the next one.

And you don't even have to license Mif2Go to do this; the
free sample version will do it all for you:
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download/samp33u40.zip
We specifically authorize commercial use of the sample
version for this purpose.  Enjoy!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>  http://www.omsys.com/


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