FP2002 & ImageReadyCS (PhotoshopCS) Help!

D

Donna

These two programs are not playing nice together.

I created a gif with 4 image maps and 4 rollover effects applied to the maps
in Image Ready from Photoshop. Everything works fine, as it was designed to,
previewing in IE from Image Ready.

I try and import the html file and the gifs created by ImageReady. The html
file imports fine, but none of the image map/rollover effect gifs will
import to FP2002 images file. FP just basically hangs up then. (I know FP is
working because I can immediately import any other image just fine.)

Therefore, I assume it is something in the code that ImageReady writes for
these gifs that FP doesn't like. I saved the code that IR created for these
and have posted it on my website at
http://www.donnamcmenamin.com/ImageReadyCode.html

Could someone that knows code & FP see what is going on here. For a visual
explanation as to what I am trying to accomplish, I offer the following. If
you will look at the homepage now of my site (http://www.donnamcmenamin.com)
what you see there is one gif with one slice (default slice by IR). In the
files that won't load, I have put an image map, rectangular, around each of
the four words beginning with Graphic Design etc. The hyperlink to the page
is attached to the respective map and additionally, there is a rollover
effect to change the text color on each of the four, on mouseover. That is
what all of this code is saying.

As a side note. In FP2002, what you see now on the homepage, I used FP to
attach image maps to the four text boxes. The links work fine, but I tried
to add a rollover effect to the image map and nothing happens as you can
see. Yes, I clicked enable rollover effects on the page properties, but I
guess since this is all in one gif, for some reason FP won't let me do it.

I included the type in the gif in the first place because I didn't want the
type to change with different browsers and all of the type as been outlined.
I suppose that I could bring the gif in with no type on the boxes, type it
in FP with some generic typeface and then add hyperlink and rollovers in FP.
Assume that this would work ok, but haven't tried it yet. Been banging my
head against the wall trying to make this work, so that I can use this
particular typeface. At any rate, I use Photoshop and Image Ready all of the
time and need to understand why FP won't read ImageReady code.

Thanks and I hope that all of this is clear. If not, ask away! Thanks for
any help in understanding all of this.
 
J

Jim Buyens

How are you importing the html file and gifs from
ImageReady?

I would steer away from File, Import, and instead just
drag everything from Windows Explorer to the FrontPage
Folder list.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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D

Donna

Hi Jim, well I didn't know that you could drag into. I will try that and
report back. And yes, I was trying to bring them into FP using File, Import.
 
D

Donna

Well, hope that you are still around Jim. The drag & drop method brought in
the first gif, but would not bring in the four gif's that are the "over"
state. FP hangs and then I get the message "The server has unexpectantly
terminated the connection." Well, the server is doing no such thing. I
always get this message when I try and bring in something FP doesn't like. I
had my poor techies at my provider going nuts with this error message and of
course, there was never a real problem. I seached for this message on MS
site, but never did find anything.
Anymore suggestions? Thanks.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Are any file over 1 MB in size or total of all image over 1 MB in size?

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T

Thomas A. Rowe

Ok, shouldn't cause any problem, but the total is a might large for a page for users on dial-up to
wait for loading.

Try dragging the images one by one into FP, if you still have a problem, then open IE, and drag the
image one by one into IE, this will tell you if FP has an issue with the image file format.

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D

Donna

Ok, will try that, but this is crazy. I have managed to bring in 3 of the 5
gifs, one at a time by dragging. Each time I have been successful bringing
in one of the 5 gifs, I have had to close FP, wait and re-open and even
then, it always doesn't work. I'm still trying to get the last two images to
come in, but so far, no go. I also did as you suggested and drug each gif
into IE on its own. All showed up just as it was designed to. I am totally
frustrated with this. Thanks for your suggestions.
 
D

Donna

After an hour and a half of a paid support call to Microsoft (the guy knew
his stuff, thank god), the final result was that it was neither the html
code nor Front Page, but something as simple as my D-Link wireless router.
We finally hardwired my computer for the internet connection and those files
just flew into my site. So again, yet another problem with DLink wireless
routers.
Thanks again to all who helped and I took down the HTML code off my website,
so you won't be able to see it.
 
C

chris leeds

whew. that's a real "occult" cause. I thought I was having problems. ;-)

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