[Framers] slow-scrolling images

[Peter Gold]

In the early days of publishing, it was common to use placeholder graphics
for a variety of reasons, then replace them with the "real" images before
sending the documents to production. The placeholders were usually marked
conspicuously "For Position Only," but occasionally some would slip past
proofreaders, and be published.

I can't remember if turning off FrameMaker's graphics display retains
anchored and unanchored frames but hides the graphics they contain. Hiding
the frames obviously would disrupt layouts.

I seem to remember that one proposed solution for avoiding slow display of
graphics in FrameMaker, in the distant past, was to create low-resolution
copies of referenced graphics, with duplicate names, in a duplicate-named
directory tree, then swap the two trees before publishing the documents.

An even fainter memory seems to recall that there may have been a script
that renamed the directory trees, paths, and/or filenames in MIF, or in the
operating system (Windows or UNIX.) It's obvious that round-tripping large
document sets to and from MIF, even with the aid of scripts, could be
problematic.

HTH

Peter Gold


> Have any of you worthies seen and fixed this issue?

> I get a very slow response in FrameMaker when scrolling through files with
> > referenced images.  Obviously, the more images the slower the response
> when
> > moving through the pages in a file.
> > It takes longer than it should for each image to appear as the page
> scrolls