FrameMaker issues with graphics BMP imported and displayed

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December 24, 2024
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BMP graphics imported into files created in an older version of FrameMaker are not displayed in FM 17.0.5.725. What should I do?

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FrameMaker-dk

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This issue is about the color depth. I am pretty sure your misbehaving bmp files have a colour depth of 32 bit. If you convert to 24 bit, they will work again. You can create a photoshop action that opens the bmp files and resaves them in 24 bit.

The new version of FrameMaker doesn't support bmp anymore, but there's a gazillion bmp files out there, because this was the original screengrap default file format.

Windows Explorer allows to show and sort images by bit depth. When you right click the bar in Windows Explorer you can add other criteria, and one of them is "bit depth". In my - danish - version of Windows, that is "Bitdybde", but it will allow you to see the bitdepth of bmp files. Those that show up with 32 bit bitdepth probably won't work for you, but if they have 24 bit, I believe they will work.

Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

FrameMaker-dk: The new version of FrameMaker doesn't support bmp anymore…

What release was that, and was there any announcement?

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FrameMaker-dk

Community Expert

FrameMaker does not - fully - support BMP anymore. 🙂

I have not seen any announcement, but I have not looked for one either. I had a client in 2022, who came with that exact problem of the bmp's and after a little trial and error i managed to figure out the bitdepth issue. Using Windows Explorers filtering we could quickly find all the misbehaving files and run a photopshop action on them. But the better solution IS to replace with png files.

Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk

Jeff_Coatsworth

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Imported by reference or copied into the FM file?

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Raquel AmarAuthor

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BMP graphics imported into files created in an older version of FrameMaker are not displayed in FrameMaker 17.0.5.725.

I published the PDF but the BMP graphics don't appear in the PDF
There are other graphics format (PNG) in the file and they displayed correctly

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Interesting, but you didn't answer the question of how the images were imported - were they referenced to some location that no longer is reachable or were they copied into the FM document?

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