Re: Visio drawings into Netscape Composer (longish saga)

Subject: Re: Visio drawings into Netscape Composer (longish saga)
From: Chris Collier <ccollier -at- OMIINTL -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:25:30 -0500

I have had similar problems using Netscape Composer, regardless of the type of
image I was trying to import. To refresh changes to an image, I have to exit
Composer and reopen the HTML file in a new Composer session. AAAAAHHHG!

Barbara Karst-Sabin wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I'm importing Visio drawings into Netscape Composer web pages. They go
> in just fine, but I'm having a very frustrating time if I have to make
> any corrections to the drawings once I have imported them.
>
> I gave up on using Composer's feature which supposedly brings up a Visio
> window for editing the image, it's very slow if it works at all.
>
> I deleted the image from the web page, went back to the original Visio
> drawing, pre-HTML save, made the corrections, and saved the new version
> over the old. Then I imported the new version to my web page. And,
> voila!!! The corrections were not there.
>
> Suffice it to say that I tried this repeatedly and tried various
> permutations of the basic routine above, all without success.
>
> I finally deleted all of the saved versions, except the original Visio
> drawing (and I mean really deleted, not just put them in the trash),
> made my corrections, saved as HTML, and imported the brand spanking new
> image into Composer. The corrections were still not there!
>
> Eventually (after about an hour and a half of this), I remembered that I
> had the original file on a floppy. I deleted all of the copies of the
> drawing (in any form) from my hard drive _and_ the network.
>
> I made the corrections to the file on the disk, saved that as HTML on my
> hard drive and, just to be on the safe side, took the floppy out of the
> drive before importing the "new" image. This time it worked.
>
> I was working on another computer and had the same thing occur and the
> delete all-work from floppy-remove floppy etc. routine was the only
> thing that worked.
>
> Now, does anyone know if either Netscape Composer or Visio has some kind
> of buffer or cache which is possibly storing the "old" version and using
> that in preference to the newly corrected version. That's the only
> explanation I can come up with for the inexplicable sequence of events
>
> There's got to be a more sensible workaround than this, like emptying
> the buffer/cache or something, or overriding it in the first place.
>
> Anyone got any ideas or past experience which might be of help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> BJ
>
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