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Hi All,
I have a chapter with about 100 or so graphics, they are all Imported and linked to some Folder.
Is there a Shortcut Way to convert all the Imported Graphics into Embedded Graphics???
At the moment, I am looking at the Insets Panel with all the graphics files and then
I thought there might be an easier way. Would appreciate any insight.
Thank you.
Extendscript is FrameMaker's internal scripting language (more or less javascript). There's also a commercial product called Framescript. IIRC, you can get a commercial script from Rick Quatro at Carmen Publishing that will embed the graphics, if you really want to go this route. See this page for his contact info: Carmen Publishing Inc.
Alternatively, you could clean up the old FM files by using his ArchiveES script (see: SWREG - ArchiveES ) to consolidate an "archive" version in one location i
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This could be easily done with an ExtendScript. But the question is: Why would you want to do this?
Embedding graphics will unnesserarily blow up your file and lock in the graphics.
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Hi Stefan,
Thanks for your response and your suggestion. By the way, What are Extend Script and how do they work???
I am trying to find easier solution to inherited problem, this is mostly for rchive purpose.
I have legacy (10yrs) FM books/chapters which have images stored on multiple network folders.
I would like to upgrade them to FM12 and then have single file (book/chapters) with all images embedded.
By the way, my still doing my way by following steps described earlier.
It is moving faster and I am getting better.
Once again, thank you.
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Extendscript is FrameMaker's internal scripting language (more or less javascript). There's also a commercial product called Framescript. IIRC, you can get a commercial script from Rick Quatro at Carmen Publishing that will embed the graphics, if you really want to go this route. See this page for his contact info: Carmen Publishing Inc.
Alternatively, you could clean up the old FM files by using his ArchiveES script (see: SWREG - ArchiveES ) to consolidate an "archive" version in one location including all of your external scattered graphics. Then your upgrade can be handled a bit better. [There's a packaging utility built-in to the newer versions of FM, but it won't get files scattered over multiple locations, so I wouldn't recommend you use it for this purpose.]
I would highly recommend against consolidating everything into a single file for a number of reasons:
If you're just looking to consolidate a legacy product in one place, I would still recommend going the Archive route and skip trying to put it all together in a single file.