FrameMaker 12 not printing .cgm graphics completely

Question

I am trying to print a document to pdf in FrameMaker 12, some .cgm files print great, others are missing vector lines. What is going on? I cannot figure this out.

I receive no error and this happens whether I do a Print Book to pdf, Print File to pdf, or Save Book as pdf, or Save File as pdf. This is very frustrating. I cannot post an image due to proprietary information but imagine a car that has callouts to it. The line indicators are all printing out that point to something...but the outline of the car itself is not printing.

Bob_Niland · Answer

Any publishing workflow with detailed line art (whether vector or raster, really), needs to assess their various final end-user presentation formats, and decide on what is a minimum acceptable stroke weight). Nowadays, this is complicated by mobile, down to phones with tiny economy ~100dpi screens.

I did this sizing exercise, in a prior assignment, over a decade ago. Back when it was my challenge, we only need to account for our 600dpi print process, and perhaps on-line access via laptop computer.

Most of the line art was coming in from CAD, and the default strokes could be all over the place. I don't recall what the final optimized number was, but because we imported into FM as EPS, we could use Illustrator to [re]set the stroke weights (as well as perform any other cleanup needed). This bias was to preserve vector as vector, which would also allow users to zoom in the their PDF reader.

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