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Susan Sackett wrote:
> We are embarking on an attempt to publish images that are
> stored in a database. The plan is to extract them from the
> database and automatically place them in a FrameMaker
> document using a prepared template.
> Has anyone out there done anything like this?
Susan:
The secret of course, is to get the images into a format
that Framemaker can use - Fhe .xwd
(X Window Dump) format is the obvious choice, since you
can then edit.
Pete Margaritis
Lucent Technologies
chief -at- ncms1 -dot- cb -dot- lucent -dot- com
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