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Robert_^_W
Robert_^_W
Inspiring
May 30, 2023
Question

FM19 randomly changes some PNG graphics to SVG in responsive HTML5

  • May 30, 2023
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Hi Community,

After finding out why my context points didn't work (tab vs space in the .h file), we're making the jump from FM17 to FM 19 (2022).

I use a mix of .png and .jpg graphics in my documentation (depending if I created them or our graphic designer did).

In our HTML5 output, FM has made some of the png files into svg (with the png embedded). This is happening at seemingly random spots.

My warnings, cautions and notes are using png files for the graphic at the insertion point, followed by the text. This aligns the top edge of the graphic with the top of the text.

There can be two notes under one another and one will change to svg while the other stays as png. The main problem is where the svg change happens, it aligns the text on the bottom edge of the graphic, as opposed to the top. I've already tried ticking and unticking things in the publish settings to no avail. Does anyone have any pointers?

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Winfried RengCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 30, 2023

Hi Robert,

 

Generally, would it be an option to switch to FrameMaker 2022? The conversion to HTML5 had been improved in the last versions.

When some of your graphics are now converted to SVG, I guess that either there are several objects in the anchored frame. Or that a setting in the Publish pod is checked. I do not have access to FrameMaker. Can you check this?

 

Best regards, Winfried

Robert_^_W
Robert_^_WAuthor
Inspiring
May 30, 2023

In FM 17 (2019) there were options to convert graphics from one format to another, but in FM19 (2022) there's only the option to convert from SVG to raster. The only object in the anchored frame is the image, no hotspots or links. All my notes feature the same anchored frame and imported image and yet not all have the issue (even though FM insists they are all different, even though they are all the same reference image).

Thank you for your thoughts.

W
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Winfried RengCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 8, 2023

This sounds very strange.

Does this mean that this happens only, when you have several warnings one after the other? Is only the first (or second) icon affected? Are your icons on the reference page and referenced via the paragraph format? Or do you insert the icon always on the body page?

Is the anchored frame always larger than the icon (after pressing ESC m p)? Or is the icon which is converted to SVG larger than the anchored frame? Then I could imagine that FrameMaker has to create an SVG file which encompasses only the area of the anchored frame and not the original larger PNG file.

Can you reproduce this also with a completely brandnew file with FrameMaker's default template?

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