Updating graphics en masse

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5 total messages Started by Kevin_Canney Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:08

#1675

Author: Kevin_Canney
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:08

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Here's an odd one--

We've always used .bmp files for manual images, but I'd like to batch convert the images to .png to save disk space on our servers.

I really don't want to reimport all graphics in Frame, however. Does anyone know of a slick way to essentially use find/replace to change .bmp to .png in the paths of graphics that are imported by reference? It seems that there ought to be a way to get at these tags, but I don't know of one.

Thanks in advance.
-Kevin

Re: Updating graphics en masse

#1676

Author: N_P_Grundtvig_Nielsen
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:32

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My first thought would be via .mif, but you'd need to take a look at the docs first to see exactly what you'd need to change in the .mif files. And make a back-up first. And try some cautious tests ... Give it a try and see if it suits?

Re: Updating graphics en masse

#1679

Author: Art Campbell
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:07

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I've recently started using Text Workbench for stuff like this, and love it. It will do recursive S&Rs on directory trees and supports logical expressions.
It works with some binary files, but I haven't tried it with .FM files. It'd be worth testing on COPIES of your files, or as Nils suggests, save the fm files out as MIF and work with those. (Omsys.com and several other third party outfits support saving all files in books or directories out as MIF, so you should still be able to batch the files, once you test on a few individuals.)

Re: Updating graphics en masse

#1688

Author: Scott_Prentice
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:12

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Our FileTools plugin has a feature that will save each file in a book to MIF, run a script, then reopen the file an overwrite the FM file. This would let you do a search/replace using Perl or other scripting language and perform this cleanup.

 <http://leximation.com/tools/info/filetools.php>

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com

Re: Updating graphics en masse

#1692

Author: Thomas_Michanek
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:10

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Please note that editing MIF requires you to not only
change the filename in the image's path, but also
change the filter identifier. And it needs to be exactly
right. Replace one of the files manually and compare
the MIF code for the two versions.

-- 
/Thomas Michanek

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