Graphic Elements in Frame 9 Template

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Pete, on your master pages, are the graphics in an anchored frame? If so, can you pull them out of the anchored frame, and then delete the anchored frame? I don't think the graphics will be referenced anymore, but it might resolve your issue to some degree.

Nadine

--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Pete Roebber <pete.roebber at pt.com> wrote:

> From: Pete Roebber <pete.roebber at pt.com>
> Subject: Graphic Elements in Frame 9 Template
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 2:29 PM
> 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
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