Re: Image repository

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Could you give us more information on the load? How many images, how large do they average, etc. How often are they changed?. (Since you use WMF, I assume the target documents are in Word.) Also, do you have tight limits on the storage space?



--- On Mon, 7/21/08, john -at- garisons -dot- com <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:

> From: john -at- garisons -dot- com <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
> Subject: Image repository
> To: 
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 1:33 PM
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm in a new position and I've been given the hot
> potato of coming up with
> a way to manage the images that are used in documents and
> specs.
> 
> People create images in a variety of ways - PowerPoint (!)
> being the
> primary tool - and are then converted to WMF and included
> in documents
> using references (rather than embedding them).
> 
> So ... what do you recommend to:
> 
>  - number or otherwise identify graphics?
> 
>  - control look & feel issues - color, size, line style
> & weight, etc.?
> 
>  - associate final format with original version?
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John G
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