A User Interface to Change the Name of an Imported Graphics File
IWBNI there were a user interface to change the name of a graphics file that has been imported into a Finale document.
As it is now, such names may be changed by saving a document as an Enigma Transportable File and editing lines that begin with the tag ^Fp. In these tags, long file names are divided into substrings across multiple lines, substrings are enclosed in double quotes, occurrences of the backslash character are repeated, and the maximum length of each substring is 12 characters with repeated backslashes counted as one character. For example, for the graphics file "D:\temp\scoregif\symbol\accid1.tif", the lines would be:
^Fp(1) "D:\\temp\\scor"This feature would be useful when one wishes to change the name of a graphics file (e.g. change image1.tif to artic1.tif) or the directory in which a given graphics file is located.
^Fp(1) "egif\\symbol\\"
^Fp(1) "accid1.tif"
This could be implemented by changing the Check Graphics dialog box to a list box of missing and found graphics files where each item in the list contains information that pertains to a given graphics file. A Rename button could be added to this dialog box that could be used to change the original name or location of any selected graphics file in the list.
Created: June 3, 2000
Last Updated: July 11, 2000 (added information on the contents of
^Fp tags based on comments by Coda Tech)
Version: Finale 2000b