Hi Tony,
I don't know what you used before, but I strongly recommend using a *.mif
and something like Notepad 2 to do a Find and Replace All for *.tif to
*.gif. I did this myself a couple of days ago, and it saved me several hours
of changing cross-references manually.
Good luck,
Lea
Tony Marek wrote:
Hello -- about five years ago I was given a method for converting all
referenced graphic files in a Frame document from .tif to .gif format.
(.gif works better for our purposes now.) The document I'm working on
has thousands of .tifs, so an automated way to do this is
Save a file as MIF, globally replace .tif with .gif, and save.
Then open the MIF file with FM and save as FM.
If you have large numbers of FM files to process, you can script this.
I also wrote/have a simple DOS command window program to change occurrences of
text (no wildcards) in large
The alternative to making a script, is to use a full-featured text editor like
TextPad. The feature you are looking for is the ability to search and replace
through files in a directory, or open files. Oxygen is another text editor that
can do this.
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On Jul 13, 2010, at
Scott Turner wrote:
The alternative to making a script, is to use a full-featured text editor
like TextPad. The feature you are looking for is the ability to search and
replace through files in a directory, or open files. Oxygen is another text
editor that can do this.
But that doesn't
It also doesn't address the issue of the import filter used to import the
graphic. There is an import filter property that determines the image type.
If you edit the mif file, you may have to edit this property as well as the
filename. With FrameScript, the script will be operating on the binary
Sorry .. jumping in late.
You might want to check out our FileTools plugin. It has a Process Files
option that will export all files in a book as the specified file type
(MIF for example), then it will run the specified command line on each
of those files (could specify a Perl or other
