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My manager seems to think that importing by REFERENCE is harder because
then you have to remember where you put all of the graphics.! The
sluggish performance is a fair trade-off, I guess.
But why is maintenance harder?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon Burton [SMTP:sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 10:39 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Framemaker questions (long)...
>
> Never (OK hardly ever) copy graphics directly into your document. It
> makes
> your life harder - you have to find all those graphics when the
> graphic
> changes and it will -, FrameMaker hates it - the file size increases
> dramatically and performance suffers - , and FrameMaker is much more
> likely
> to corrupt the file - large file size equals more opportunity.
>
> Even if the graphics are small, the file size doesn't increase and the
> file
> does not corrupt, please think of the poor writer who will follow you
> and
> must make updates to the file. Copying into FrameMaker makes updating
> and
> maintaining so hard.
>
> sharon
>
