Tracing the Graphic Lineage

[Art Campbell]

The meta book is always a good strategy for global operations like
this, provided you have a fast network that won't hang files while
opening... Otherwise you may have to try to open all of 'em, which has
the potential to be really ugly.

Art

On 5/30/07, Pinkham, Jim <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com> wrote:
> It does help, indeed. Two very good suggestions!
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:02 PM
> To: Pinkham, Jim; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Tracing the Graphic Lineage
>
> Pinkham, Jim wrote:
>
> > If one has a figure at
> > c:\docs\manuals\widgets\bigredwidget.eps, is there a ready way to
> > determine what FM manuals are importing bigredwidget.eps by reference?
>
> Art's on the right track, but I strongly recommend you generate an
> _Index_ of References, not a List. The latter will list imported
> graphics in order of occurrence, while the former will list them in
> alphabetical order. That makes Art's idea of making a table and sorting
> unnecessary.
>
> Also, you can make one or more new "metabooks" containing all the FM
> files from all your manuals (or some reasonable subset, like all for one
> product, release, whatever), and use the metabook(s) just for generating
> the index(es) of references. That reduces or eliminates the need to
> merge multiple lists.
>
> HTH!
> Richard
>
>
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> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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