FrameImage (was Equation Editor Issues)

[Peter Gold]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:02 AM,  <orandeep at comcast.net> wrote:
> Question: What does "Save  FrameImage with Imported Graphics" do?
> Answer: Back in the early days when FrameMaker was a true cross-platform tool that would allow you to work the same Frame file on Windows, Mac and various flavors of Unix, FrameImage was an equilizer giving you a common format across the three platforms for imported raster images.
> While you could probably still use it with mif, etc. I doubt that many need it today. FrameImage is mostly an artifact. Turning it on will bloat your file sizes and give you little or no benefit.

The common format was for image previews in FM documents, regardless
of the platform or graphic format. Without a FrameImage, a graphic
that couldn't be previewed would appear as a gray box placeholder on
screen, but would reproduce correctly when output.

Regards,

Peter
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