Re: Locating the home of a graphic

["Lech Rzedzicki" <xchaotic -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi.

First of all what files?
For open formats like XML or HTML it's trivial, just use a script that will
list all the anchor tags for HTML (a href="this_is what you need"), for XML
it's entities, depending on the method used.
But more likely then not you are still using some proprietary format, which
makes things harder (still possible to use some clever scripting), but still
you probably have to use the program's feature to list the graphics used in
a given document and output that list to a file and work from there, or
perhaps the program publishes an API that can do that, but with so little
information, I'm just guessing.
You have to provide more details: the tools, Operating System, file system
(under ext or reiser or wherever else it would be possible to replace
duplicate graphics with links, without altering the actual file content).
The file and graphics structure would also be helpful.

For the dumbed-down solution, grab a viewer like IrfanView (it's free) or
AcdSee, find all the graphics files to have a list of all of them, sort them
by file name, if there are two with the same file name and size, they're
likely to be duplicate. If they are, search the location with all the
documents that you're restructuring for files that contain the file name in
the content. Adjust appropriately. But like I said it won't work for
proprietary file formats like .doc

On 12/12/06, Shenton, David (DTRN) <david -dot- shenton -at- smithsdetection -dot- com>
wrote: