First, What are you trying to accomplish with them on the master page? For most things, copying them in isn't a great solution; importing by reference is way better, but it depends on what you're trying to do.
AND... the grey box is what happens when you're running out of RAM and Frame takes steps to prevent your system from crashing. But because you didn't provide any details about your system vitals, it's hard to tell. Art On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote: > FrameMaker 8 > Windows XP SP3 > > I have a a couple of .png graphics that I copied to a Master Page. > Every time I use the right-click menu to select Object Properties, > Frame crashes. I tried converting the graphics to GIF but got the same > result. > > These same graphics will, sometimes but not reproducibly always (at > least not that I've noticed), disappear, leaving a grey box behind. So > far that's been fixable by reimporting the page layout from elsewhere, > but I'd rather not have to worry about that happening. > > Does anyone know what might be causing this and, more importantly, how > to fix it permanently instead of with a bandaid? > -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
