I'm on the build side of the house and its my writers who pick and choose what they use in terms of formats. I have to react and support what they do or provide workarounds. I'm not sure if OLE is 100% of the problem or not, we have only had a few instances of this problem in the thousands of files that are in our build process. This may have been going on for sometime, but our old build process wasn't displaying these same errors, so that is one curiosity about all of this that bothers me the most. It would be a different story if suddenly I had a new writer that was starting to do things this way, I would be more willing to say DON'T DO THIS. But as this is something that has been going through the previous build with no detectible problems it makes it a little harder to set this rule.
Ultimately, if I can't make the build work, we will come back and say don't do this and when we find instances of embedding, we will have the writer rework the files. FYI, I haven't really paid attention to the formats that we use for graphics, I just used the jpeg as it was what the tool (SnagIt) produced I think by default. ..dan *************** Dan Vint Engineer Sr. BEA Systems Home: 510-522-4703 (generally working from home) Office: 408-570-8554 IM Yahoo: dvint1_99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:08 AM > To: Dan Vint; framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Possible Frame6+SGML Issue only MIF to Native > and OLE graphics > > Dan Vint wrote: > > > As these files are saved back to Native (via FrameScript) > > I'm getting the following error/warning from Frame: > > <<SnagIt.jpg>> > > This has occurred on 4 different books, not sure if they have > > been all Frame 6 or not, but this last one is 6. One of the > > books we couldn't track the problem down and had to rebuild > > it. The other 3 seem to all be related to embedded OLE > > graphics. Is there some known problem with OLE embedded > > graphics or an issue with saving from MIF back to Native? > > I haven't a clue about your MIF washing process, but why in the world > would you use OLE, with all its overhead and potential problems, to > import JPEG graphics, for which FM has a filter? Use File > Import > > File, not File > Import > Object. > > For that matter, don't use JPEG for screen shots (I'm > guessing from the > SnagIt reference that that's what you're dealing with) -- it's a lossy > format best suited to continuous-tone images like photos and poorly > suited to reproducing sharp edges and text. Better choices > are PNG, GIF, > and TIF. FM can import all three file types -- no OLE, please! :-) > > HTH! > Richard > > > ------ > Richard G. Combs > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-777-0436 > ------ > > > > > Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
