images in collectives

Hi

When building a collective, I noticed that images used for pictctrl objects are included repeatedly, ie. the same image file which is used for several different pictctrl objects is included once for each instance of pictctrl. Which means that a patch containing lots of pictctrl objects can sometimes lead unneccessarily to a massively huge collective file.

Any solution to this?

Forgive me if this topic has already been covered, but I couldn't find it in the archives.

Marcel