Retaining Image Maps

[Guest]

I am attemting to take a very complex help system and put it into a web site. However, the images that I used are too large for a web based system. In order to solve that issue, I have converted the images from a bmp format to gif.

My goal is to change the images in several pages to link to the new gif images. These images will be the same dimension and content as those that are replaced. Only the imahe name will be changed.

Each of these images also contains a number of image maps. Unfortunately, when I change the image in the help system, I also loose the image maps that I use to move from one page to another. I have several hunderd of these image mappings, so manually replacing them all would be a very large project. Is there a way of changing the image without also loosing the image mapping?

[donalmc]

Brent,

I would first try a brute force approach:
1. Create a copy of the help system to work with
2. Update all the images from bmp to gif but retain the file names
3. Open all the files in the system with a text editor and do a search and replace all for .bmp to .gif

Cheers,
Donal

[Guest]

Thanks Donal, that seems to work, though I wish that there was a built in way to do this (similar to the option that allows substituting "_" for " " in document names).

Brent