On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:47:45 -0400, "Eisenloeffel, Martin" <meisenloeffel at equitrac.com> wrote:
>I have a situation wherein I have a number of documents whose referenced >graphics are peppered across multiple folders on a network. There's a >lot of redundancy among the graphics and many unused graphics as well. >What I'd like to do is consolidate all the used graphics into a single >folder per document and re-reference them into their respective >documents. > >Currently, the best thing I can think of is to break all the links by >moving the graphics where I want them and then updating the graphics to >the right place manually when I open any given file. The trouble is, I'm >looking at multiple hundreds of graphics in total, making it an onerous >task. > >So, my question for the group is two-prong: > >1. Can anyone offer a better solution? Yes. Get Bruce Foster's Archive plugin. You can run it for each file, and it will gather the referenced graphics into a single folder and update the references to them. It's $25 shareware. http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/products.htm >2. If I go with what I think is the best solution, is there a way to get >Frame to parse out a list of all used graphics in a given file so I know >what I'm moving? That would be a generated List of References, where you select imported graphics as the items to reference. You do it the same way you generate a TOC or IX. Or if you want it alphabetical, rather than sequential, make an Index of References instead. >Thanks for any help! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/
