Graphic Elements in Frame 9 Template

[Pete Roebber]

I am attempting to implement my company's new design for manuals in a 
Frame template and am running into a problem. The new design calls for a 
graphical element running across the bottom of every page. Another 
graphical element appears on every chapter title page. A third graphical 
element appears at the top of every left-hand page and a fourth graphical 
element appears at the top of every right-hand page. So every page has at 
least two graphical elements, not counting any graphics that might appear 
in the text.

I have imported the graphical elements by reference into the master page 
for each page type. The graphical elements are Adobe Illustrator graphics. 


Although the pages look like they are supposed to, it takes ~6x as long to 
print a manual to PDF using this template and the PDF file size is ~3x 
larger than it was using the old template that had only one small 
graphical element on each chapter title page. Is there a better way to 
implement this design, or do I have to reconcile myself to >1 hour print 
times and mach larger PDFs?

Thanks,

Pete
FrameMaker 9.0 p250
Windows XP Pro
Intel Core 2 CPU
6300 @1.86GHz
2GB RAM