3.7.4.1 Omitting and restoring graphics production

Omit graphics processing

If you have already converted (or provided replacements for) the graphics in your document, you might save processing time by choosing Do not write graphics files in the Mif2Go Export dialog. However, this choice has no effect if your configuration file specifies Mif2Go native graphics processing, such as for WinHelp output. Only production of graphics using FrameMaker export filters is omitted.

Two effects are involved:

• the actual production of graphics files

• the way those files are referenced in the output.

If you choose Do not write graphics files the first time you run a conversion, Mif2Go creates references based on file names that would have been assigned to graphics files produced using FrameMaker export filters, but without actually producing any graphics.

When you choose Do not write graphics files for a subsequent conversion run, Mif2Go checks the settings in the configuration file, and creates references based on the more recently used of the two graphics production methods.

Restore graphics processing

If you add or change any graphics in your document after you have run the conversion with Do not write graphics files checked, and you have not specified external replacement files for the graphics (see §31.3 Replacing and relocating graphics files), you must choose one of the other two options.

Choose the correct option

If you do not remember which option you chose when you first ran the conversion, look in the [Graphics] section of the configuration file for the UseGraphicPreviews setting:

[Graphics] setting	Export option	Production method
UseGraphicPreviews=Yes	Write for anchored frames	FrameMaker export filters
UseGraphicPreviews=No	Write graphics for equations	Mif2Go native graphics processing

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