Fixed my Problem

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:23:31 -0700, "Flato, Gillian" <gflato at nanometrics.com> 
wrote:

>I finally fixed my problem. I can build help files again! (whew! I was
>starting to sweat bullets)
> 
>Here is what I did:
> 
>1. Reinstalled ePub (don't know if that helped but what the hell)
> 
>2. Fixed the corrupt graphics (ePub cannot manage images grouped
>together with Frame callouts. I created the graphics with callouts in
>Illustrator and saved as a *.png file. Additionally, ePub can't handle
>multiple images in an anchored Frame. I took the three images in an
>anchored Frame and combined them into one graphic in Photoshop.)

That's an unfortunate limitation; adding callouts or other
Frame vector elements to graphics is very common.  So is using
two or more images as a montage in a single frame.  Mif2Go 
handles both of those situations just fine, with *no* manual
intervention.  You shouldn't have to repeat the work you did
in Frame in Photoshop and Illustrator!  Yikes!

If you run into this deficiency again, you can use the free 
demo version of Mif2Go to generate the composite graphics,
even if you then use them in ePP.  ;-)  Just run the demo to
produce plain HTML; don't bother with any .ini settings, the
defaults will work out of the box.  Look at the generated
HTML pages to find the graphic, then get its name from the
browser (right-click on image, Properties).  Use that graphic
in ePP.  Takes maybe five minutes start to finish.

The demo is available at:
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm

>3. I changed the graphic settings in the Style Designer as follows:
> 
>By Reference Graphics: Enabled (with Frame 7 I had this as Disabled)
>By Reference Graphics use document dimensions: Disabled  

Of course, you could save even more time and money by 
using Mif2Go for the whole job.  It costs only about 
1/5 of what ePP is these days... and does much more.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/