My expience has been both prone to corruption, and because it's in the OS, able to crash the whole system, not just the application.
Embedding graphics by reference works with the linked application just as OLE does -- a PDF opens in Acrobat, an AI or EPS in Illustrator, a PSD in Photoshop, and so on. So you're not giving up any usability. The reason that PDF was mentioned in this thread is because the original thread was related to Solidworks, and you don't want to try to fire that up to edit a file. I don't think any particular graphic file naming convention is necessary, other than a description of the content. Cheers, Art On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Boone Severson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Art, > > Can you clarify "reliable"? Prone to corruption, crashing, etc? After years > of using FrameMaker's internal drawing tool, we're going to adopt an external > diagramming tool. To keep the usability the same, we were going to use OLE. > > I've seen the file size grow quite a bit (172k .fm7 file + 200k Visio file > turns into a 4.4 MB .fm7 file using OLE), but it's still the most user > friendly. If someone needs to update a drawing, they double-click and do it > right there. > > For those that link in PDF conversions, what kind of filename conventions > are being used? Figure 6 isn't always going to be Figure 6, and due to some > refactoring that sub-section could be moved to another file in the book. > > I guess the question is: If OLE has showstopping faults, what's the next > best thing for usability? > > Thanks! > Boone > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:09 PM > To: Carole Johnson > Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks > > > > Referenced graphic file would be pretty standard. > > OLE isn't reliable, and copying the graphic in makes the files too large. > > Art > > > -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
