PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

[Art Campbell]

My expience has been both prone to corruption, and because it's in the
OS, able to crash the whole system, not just the application.

Embedding graphics by reference works with the linked application just
as OLE does --  a PDF opens in Acrobat, an AI or EPS in Illustrator, a
PSD in Photoshop, and so on. So you're not giving up any usability.
The reason that PDF was mentioned in this thread is because the
original thread was related to Solidworks, and you don't want to try
to fire that up to edit a file.

I don't think any particular graphic file naming convention is
necessary, other than a description of the content.

Cheers,
Art

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Boone Severson <severson at cray.com> wrote:
> Hello Art,
>
>  Can you clarify "reliable"? Prone to corruption, crashing, etc? After years of using FrameMaker's internal drawing tool, we're going to adopt an external diagramming tool. To keep the usability the same, we were going to use OLE.
>
>  I've seen the file size grow quite a bit (172k .fm7 file + 200k Visio file turns into a 4.4 MB .fm7 file using OLE), but it's still the most user friendly. If someone needs to update a drawing, they double-click and do it right there.
>
>  For those that link in PDF conversions, what kind of filename conventions are being used? Figure 6 isn't always going to be Figure 6, and due to some refactoring that sub-section could be moved to another file in the book.
>
>  I guess the question is: If OLE has showstopping faults, what's the next best thing for usability?
>
>  Thanks!
>  Boone
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell
>  Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:09 PM
>  To: Carole Johnson
>  Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>  Subject: Re: PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks
>
>
>
> Referenced graphic file would be pretty standard.
>
>  OLE isn't reliable, and copying the graphic in makes the files too large.
>
>  Art
>
>
>



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