hardcopies with FM in poor quality

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Printing my Text with referenced pictures as PDF-file and sending this to the printer, I have get a hardcopy a good quality but sending it to the same printer directly from FrameMaker the pictures are more or less in preview-quality. Did I miss to change some FrameMaker-settings or what is wrong?

Bob_Niland · Answer

The usual cause of this is:your graphics are EPS or PDF (which have embedded coarse preview or thumbnail images), andyou are printing via a driver that is not PostScript (for example, hp PCL).Fixes (pick one):Render to PDF and print that.Switch to the PostScript driver for the printer (assuming it supports multiple PDLs). You might need to install the Ps driver.File an enhancement request with Adobe to have an option in Framemaker to preview and draft print all graphics at actual resolution (ignoring preview/thumbnails). Wait. This might take some time.Displaying thumbnail/preview images in FM made a lot of sense back when computers and video cards were slower and lacked RAM. I recall 8x10 300 dpi TIFs taking 30 minutes just to display the page on Win3.1. This is no longer a problem, but it's not trivial to code, as it would require interpreting and rendering PostScript data structures on the fly.

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