Drag and Drop graphics from Adobe Bridge into Framemaker 2017

When you say Import by Copy, do you mean Copy into Document, or Import by Reference?

Regardless, in Fm 2017 you have two new features:

• Insert > Image,  which is a greatly simplified image insertion workflow that works for most file types (but not all...) See http://www.techcommtools.com/framemaker-2017-new-feature-project-manager/  for a video
• The Project Manager, which lets you set up common locations from which you can drag/drop images. Bridge was the first thing I thought of when I saw this feature, but because it's similar in look/feel to a book file, I prefer it to Bridge (though I wish I had a preview like Bridge provides.) See http://www.techcommtools.com/new-fm-2017-menus/  for a video

re: Not sure if there's a flag for that but Import by Copy isn't "best practices" these days as it bloats your files.

It's never been sound stewardship. In addition to bloat:

• There's no record of what the source object was or where it came from.
• There's no record of the date (revision) of the object.
• A corruption elsewhere in the document, eve one that might be mitigated by MIF wash, can cause multiple import-by-copy objects to become unrecoverable gray boxes.
• No real control over efficient object size (resolution in the case or raster objects).
• No obvious control over whether aspect ratio has been distorted.
• No optimization of the color model used.

Any entity that generates illustrated documents needs to have a managed repository for imported objects, a policy for preferred graphics file formats, and specific guidelines for vector/raster, and compression by subject matter.

A policy of drag'n'drop, OLE or import-by-copy amounts to no policy.