Copy into document graphics vs. Import by Reference

[Scott White]

We ALWAYS copy into document. This allows us to pass the file around  
without breaking the links to the graphics. It may take a little  
longer to do our books, but I feel it equals out since we don't have  
to hassle with broken links. As far as paginating our books, we just  
break our files down a little smaller and this makes the files fast  
enough to work with.

Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com



On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Gillian Flato wrote:

> Guys,
>
> We're having a debate in my TW team about whether to use Import by Ref
> for graphics or Copy into Document. I always Import by reference. The
> hardware writers copy into document. Their books take much longer to
> build than mine, and I am convinced that it's because they are copying
> the graphics into the document.
>
> Am I right, is this what's causing their slow book building  
> process?  I
> have much bigger books than they do, in terms of pages, but they have
> bigger graphics.
>
> Also, what are some arguments for importing by ref vs copying in? What
> do you guys do?
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> <mailto:gflato at nanometrics.com>
>
> Gillian Flato
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