This OLE renaming trick also works if the OLE is an embedded Excel file or a Word file. Just rename it to .xls or .doc.
Seraphim On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:24:48 -0700, "Combs, Richard" > <richard.combs at Polycom.com> > wrote: > > >Actually, it's much worse than that. "Visio embedded drawings" are _not_ > >embedded graphics (in the FM sense) -- FM doesn't have an import filter > >for Visio files. They're actually embedded OLE objects. Much more of a > >problem than embedding graphics files -- there's lots of overhead > >involved with OLE and more chance for things to break. > > ... > >I suspect OLE objects are beyond even Mif2Go's prodigious capabilities. > > Nope. ;-) At least, not when they represent Visio files. > One of our customers (Intel) actually discovered this, and > told us about it. It turns out that if you export the OLE > objects with Mif2Go, and rename the files from .ole to .vsd, > you can open them in Visio just fine. Use this setting > in mif2htm.ini: > > [GraphExport] > ExportOleFiles=Yes > > That will make the *.ole files in the output directory. > You need to rename them, perhaps with a console command: > > C:\>ren *.ole *.vsd > > If you were actually using them in Mif2Go outputs, you'd > rename them with a BookFileCommand, and also set: > > [GraphSuffix] > ole=vsd > > so that the HTML Mif2Go produced referenced them correctly. > > When the OLE objects do *not* represent Visio files, you > don't use ExportOleFiles=Yes. Then Mif2Go goes through > the OLE objects and hunts down a likely WMF, and exports > *that*. Sometimes if there are multiple WMFs it will > choose the wrong one, in which case you can set: > > [GraphExport] > MultipleOLE=Yes > > and we'll output *all* of them. This is in the User's Guide > par. 29.2.3.7, "Setting export options for OLE objects". > > HTH! > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as seraphim37 at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/seraphim37%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
