Does FM crash on Large files on a regular basis?

[Art Campbell]

I'd agree with Jeremy on almost all of this... except that it's
impossible to embed a Visio drawing in an FM file, either by copying
it in or by reference.

You may have Viso files embedded as OLE objects, or you may have
graphic files that were created using SaveAs from a Visio drawing. But
you cannot embed a native Visio drawing because it isn't a real
graphics format.

So my first step would be to find out exactly what you're dealing with....
Then follow Jeremy's advice and replace whatever is in the file with
referenced graphics.

***
If you MUST do a compare, I'd try having the engineer who created the
mutant to generate a PDF.
Then compare that with a PDF of your last version.

Art


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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:26:39 +0200, Orly Zimmerman
> <orlyz at marvell.com> wrote:
>
>>I have an FM file that is 14 MB with lots of Visio embedded
>>drawings in different conditionalized rows of the tables.
>  ...
>>Now, each time I do a compare, FM crashes on me. The corrupted
>>file (with the .fm.c57 extension) shows that all the figs are
>>corrupted.
>>
>>Does anyone have a solution for this? Could it be a simple
>>matter of adding more memory to the computer?
>
> This is the totally predictable result of *embedding* graphics
> in Frame.  Don't do it!  Always, always, always include all
> graphics by reference.  The only fix (short of reverting to
> an earlier version where graphics still work) is to re-import
> the corrupted graphics, this time by reference.
>
> If you want to fix this before it becomes a disaster, you
> can use the demo version of Mif2Go to export all graphics
> in their original format, losslessly.  You do not have to
> buy Mif2Go to do this, just install the demo:
>  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
>
> The User's Guide has detailed instructions in par. 2.5.2,
> "Replacing embedded graphics with referenced graphics".
>
> HTH!
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/
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