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> Actually, thinking about it, it's not so much the
> support files' size as
> their number that is a concern. There is some
> reluctance to include a host
> of new files into the CD build. But if they are all
> required, then this might not be such a concern.
Your build engineer isn't some 50 year old portly D&D
freak, is he? LOL! I worked with that dood!
Anyway, they are required and they have no impact on
anything on the CD but the Catalog.
> I don't specify any rules other than which folder to
> use, and I accept the
> other default options. Oh, and I tried turning on
> the "Optimize for CD" (?)
> option, but this still generated all the support
> files.
Yep. It will. And you want to turn that option on. And
you should use stop words to limit the size of your
catalog file.
> Ah, so the filenaming guidelines apply only to the
> PDX file. Phew. (Good
> advice about "clean" names for PDFs, though.)
>
> Thanks, Goober.
No prob.
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-- Geoff Hart
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