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_Brad_Hemsell_
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February 28, 2008
Question

FM8 Rasterising segments of .ai files when outputting to PDF!!!

  • February 28, 2008
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Hello!

when using Illustrator (CS2) ai files in framemaker 8, we're finding that segments (seemingly random chunks) of the images are becoming rasterised when the book is saved / output as a PDF... Has anyone else seen this before? Does anyone know how to remedy this please?

Brad
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    _Brad_Hemsell_Author
    Participant
    March 19, 2008
    Hello Pankaj,

    I'll e-mail you the PDF output, and the .ai file as requested! The rasterised segments are marked up on the PDF.

    Cheers

    Brad
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    _Pankaj_aggrawal_
    Participant
    March 19, 2008
    Hi Brad,

    We are trying to reproduce the problem at your end , so kindly send the .ai and .pdf files which u have used.

    Also please tell me what all segments of the images are becoming rasterised.Is the problem generic for all the .ai images ?

    Thanks,
    Pankaj
    aggrawal@adobe.com
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    _Brad_Hemsell_Author
    Participant
    March 4, 2008
    Hello Arnis,

    converting to EPS has indeed solved the problem... (it's also made the illustration file 12 times bigger though!)

    It's a shame that framemaker has these problems with ai files...

    Many thanks for the solution!
    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    February 28, 2008
    Brad,

    The .ai import is only working because of the pseudo-PDF format of the
    .ai file. FM thinks this is a PDF and internally converts it to EPS
    for output. You might be much better off converting to EPS from
    Illustrator first. Then FM will not touch the EPS (it will simply pass
    it through on output).
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