Re: Frame 7 File size (HUGE)

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Paul Brady" <framers-pbrady@sneakemail.com>
> Question: I had huge graphics in a frame file which I replaced with files
> about 10 times smaller. However, the frame file size is still huge! I
> tried exiting and reopening, miffing the file and resaving it as an FM
> file, etc...
> I am importing PNG files to replace huge BMPs, using FM 7.0 on a Windows
> NT v4.0 platform.

It sounds like you're importing graphics by copy, not by reference.
If you import by reference, you only end up with a link to the image
in the FM file, not the entire image file. This makes your FM files
smaller and the updates of graphics easier.

Anyway, the following are possible reasons:
1. You think you have imported the BMP graphics by reference, but in fact
   they're imported by copy, and they are still there in the file.
   Not very probable, I guess, but you never know :-)
2. You haven't deleted the BMP graphics before you imported the PNGs
   on top of them. The BMPs are still there, hiding under the PNGs.
3. There are other graphics still in the file, apart from the ones
   you have correctly replaced. They may be hiding on Master or
   Reference pages, or in anchored frames but outside the visible
   portion of the frame.
4. You have the Preference "Save FrameImage with Imported Graphics"
   turned on.

I think I've listed them in inverse probability order :-)


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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
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