Copy into document graphics vs. Import by Reference

[Neil Tubb]

Really? While this sounds crazy to me, I suppose if you were not working
off the same network it would be the only way to go. Generally, though,
most TW depts. are working off the same LAN (CMS or not), so sharing is
not an issue.

I just find importing by ref is simple, and for software especially it
makes it easy when updating screenshots.

My 2 cents,
Neil


-----Original Message-----
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] On Behalf Of Scott White
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:34 PM
To: Gillian Flato
Cc: framers at frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Copy into document graphics vs. Import by Reference 

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>
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> Gillian Flato
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