Raymond, Raymond,
I may be getting out of my league here, but I�ll try to answer your questions. NW provides two methods for adding graphics to a document, via the clipboard of by importing graphics created by other programs. The clipboard method involves copying the graphic to the clipboard and pasting it into your NW document from the clipboard. This method adds a copy of the graphic to your NW document and increases the file size of your document by the size of the graphic file pasted into your document. The import method bypasses the clipboard. In Nisus Writer 6.0.3 you can read about it under the Help menu by selecting Nisus Writer Help and typing �To import a PICT, EPSF, TIFF or MacPaint 2.0 graphic.� The import procedures are clear, but the technical import process is not explained. My guess is that the import process works like an alias. That is, NW creates a place holder and adds it to your NW document. The place holder describes the path to the graphic file located outside your NW document. The file size of your NW document increases only slightly, by the size of the place holder rather than by the size of the graphic file. Even so, the place holder links the graphic file to your NW document so you can see the graphic when the document is open and it prints as an element of your NW document. If I am correct (and I wish someone more knowledgeable would step in here) NW�s import method is particularly advantageous for long documents with many graphic illustrations. That�s because it keeps the size of an NW document small so that scrolling and editing text aren�t slowed down as they would be were all the graphics integral to the NW document. On the other hand, if an imported graphic file linked by a place holder to the NW document is deleted or moved, the link won�t work because the path it describes points to a file that no longer exists or because it points to a place where the graphic file is not located. Hope this helps. Regards, Bill --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
