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ALUONGO@ANNAPMICRO.COM
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November 11, 2009
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image drastically increases file size

  • November 11, 2009
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Hello -

I want to include our company logo image on blank pages in my Frame document.  The image itself is only 4KB, but for some reason, when I copy it onto a master page, it increases the Frame doc file size from 98KB to 969KB.  Anyone have any idea why this happens, or how to fix the problem?

Thanks for your help!

Amanda

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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    November 11, 2009

    How are you bringing in the image? By reference or by copying it in? If you're just copy & pasting it in, then it will embed the image in the file & bloat it up. Best practice is inserting by reference.

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    Art_Campbell1
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    November 11, 2009

    I suspect you have Save As FrameImage turned on in your preferences.

    But when you do this, it embeds the graphic as part of the file. And then it's multiplied to body pages.

    If I was going to do it, I think I'd set it up as a graphic in a referenced frame on a Reference Page and call it into the documents by setting up a new tag that was only used to call it -- specify the name of the frame on the Advanced tab of the para designer.

    Art

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    ALUONGO@ANNAPMICRO.COMAuthor
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    November 11, 2009

    Hi Art -

    I am really unfamiliar with references pages, so bear with me.  Here's where I've gotten with this.  I placed my image on a reference page in a "reference frame".  On the reference page, my image is centered.  When I go back to the body page and choose the designated paragraph tag, the image appears, but it's left aligned.  I choose Centered in the paragraph designer, but that just moves the cursor to the center, not the image.

    I know it's something simple that I'm missing.

    Thanks again,

    Amanda

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    Art_Campbell1
    Inspiring
    November 11, 2009

    OK, it's hard to do this without seeing it, and things may vary a bit from FM version to version, but:

    Select the frame on the reference page. Enlarge it horizontally so that it is as wide as the text container on your pages. Say 6.5" maybe.

    Then center the graphic inside the resized frame. That should be all it takes.

    What you're doing is calling the referenced frame with your para tag -- it's just bringing along the graphic by happinstance -- it would pull in whatever content happened to be in it. So to make sure the frame is centered, you're enlarging it so that it can't not be centered. When it is invoked, the graphic location should be the same (centered) as it is on the ref page.

    Art

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