There are two ways to import an image in Freeway.
The first is to draw a graphic box on the page, import (or drag and
drop) an original image into it, then scale, crop, rotate, etc. The
original image in this mode can be anything that you can open with
Photoshop, more or less, and it doesn’t matter what size or resolution
that original image is. The reason is that Freeway is going to
generate a cropped, resized, reformatted version of that original and
place it in your Resources folder when it publishes the page that
holds it. The original will not be modified in any way.
The second is as a pass-through image. You can access this method
through the File / Import dialog, where you’ll see a checkbox labeled
Pass-through. You can also simply draw an HTML box on the page and
import or drag your image into it. When you do this, though, you take
responsibility for the dimensions and file format of the image. You
are telling Freeway, “Don’t worry about this one, I’ve already made it
Web-safe.” Such an image cannot be cropped or rotated or resized at
all – it’s pre-shrunk.
So when you do this last-ditch save, and find the file in your
Resources folder that Freeway created, move it into your Media folder
(or really, anywhere outside of the Site folder, so it won’t be
removed by Freeway during the publish cycle) and then re-import it
into your layout, you are importing an image that has already been
cropped, compressed, and formatted as JPEG, GIF, or PNG. It’s no
longer as good as the original, so you want to stop running it through
the sausage machine again and again. That’s why pass-through exists.
Walter
On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:15 AM, SkipII wrote:
Walt,
I don’t know what you mean by “re-import that image as pass-
through…”
Is that what your following instructions are doing?
Wouldn’t it be better to find the graphic and put it into a Freeway
folder for good? Note the post by Robert B who says I should put it
in media folder. I was taught to stay away form that folder.
On 30 Jun 2010, 1:07 pm, waltd wrote:
You can, although that’s a bit desperate. If you do, you should
immediately re-import that image as pass-through to stop any
further degradation due to over-compression.
Try using Spotlight or Finder’s search field to locate the original
file by its filename. Then use the Locate button to navigate to it
and restore the link.
The only thing that will confuse Freeway, in my experience, is the
file actually going missing. If it was on a CD and you ejected that
disk, or if it was on a file server and you’re not connected to the
network, that sort of thing. If the file was on a file server and
you weren’t connected to that server at the time you tried to
publish, Freeway would attempt to connect to the server and re-
establish the link.
Walter
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