Scott White wrote: > We ALWAYS copy into document. This allows us to pass the file > around without breaking the links to the graphics. It may > take a little longer to do our books, but I feel it equals > out since we don't have to hassle with broken links. As far > as paginating our books, we just break our files down a > little smaller and this makes the files fast enough to work with.
Why do you have to "pass the file around"? I'm not sure I even understand what that means, but if all of a book's FM files are in a directory, and all its graphics are in a subdirectory of that, then you can "pass around" the directory without breaking anything. In fact, more complicated schemes with shared graphics work without breaking as long as relative paths remain the same (don't cross the root of a drive, or the paths become absolute). So if you mean working locally and then copying to a server (which is what I do), you just maintain the same directory structure in both places. In fact, there are utilities that will keep the local and remote directories in sync. But I'm with Neil -- the biggest advantage of referenced graphics for me is being able to replace screen shots with newer versions and have the FM docs update automatically when I open them. I update graphics _far_ more often than I move files around. IMHO, YMMV, etc. Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
