how to import a graphic with good quality

In addition to the other excellent tips so far:

• That scanned image appears to have some bleed from content on the next page (back of sheet). Obtain some flexible flat black material (such as anti-static wrap) and apply to that back page to drive it all to black.
• That scan needed to have a transfer function applied for higher contrast (and play with the settings after applying the drive-back-to-black trick).
• I tend to do such scans at the optimal optical resolution of the scanner, perhaps with the page slightly rotated so that any halftone patterns don't beat against scan lines, creating avoidable artifacts.
• Then use a raster image editor to rectify, clean up and rescale to optimal workflow resolution. Make sure the image is grayscale, and not color (unless it is color, which introduces myriad other challenges). PNG is adequate for this sort of work.
• Make sure the FM workflow doesn't down-sample the output further.

In Frame maker I have made Insert/image and selected the TIFF image. So in Frame maker the result in print is OK, but it failed to export the Frame maker document to PDF (error message), and if I do an export to RTF, if I try to open the RTF it opens Microsoft Word but the image has gone in the RTF file. Why ?

Hi David,

I have tried to do this :

1) - I have save my scanned PDF to TIFF.

2) - As my graphic is on page 11 of the PDF, I have used the page 11 in TIFF inside Frame maker (Insert image).

It seems to be much better than my JPEG screenshot about the lines in the graphic.

But I will try also with scanning directly to TIFF in a higher resolution.

The screenshot on the scanned PDF file,  is made in jpeg (bitmap image).

I was thinking to another thing : in order to keep quality, do you think I could transform this bitmap image to a vector image, and how to do it with frame maker ? 

Additional question: What is the file format of your graphics file?

FrameMaker can display EPS files only with limited quality. You have to create a PDF file to get the full resolution.

I recommend this also fo other file formats.

So the image has gone from a paper image to PDF to a screenshot of the PDF? That sounds like a recipe for a degraded image. If the image isn't available as an image file in the first place, I would go from scanning the paper copy directly to an image file - that's the highest quality you're going to achieve - and then use that image file in your FM content.