Working with graphics

The Portable HTML Standard Edition template can produce three different graphics formats: GIF, JPEG, and PNG. By default, a graphic that is imported into FrameMaker by reference in one of these formats (and that resides in an anchored frame by itself-no callouts) is passed through. This means that during conversion, WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition copies the referenced graphic to the output directory. This is by far the fastest conversion method because no processing is necessary.

To be passed through by default, a graphic must meet the following requirements:

If Publisher does not pass your graphic through by default, then you can explicitly map it to any one of the imported by reference styles. However, the results of the conversion will only include the first imported graphic contained in the anchored frame. No other objects are converted. However, markers are still processed (you can use them to create image maps).

If a graphic does not meet these requirements, it is processed to create the GIF, JPEG, or PNG output. During processing, the contents of the anchored frame are printed to a temporary PostScript file. The PostScript file is then converted to the final output format.

In the Portable HTML template, the GIF graphics style is used by default. This translates all the anchored frames into GIF files with a transparent background and interlacing.


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