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Anonymous

Question

image width differed from exported illustrator and coreldraw emf

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July 10, 2013
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Hi,

when exporting a 7cm width EMF image from illustrator and corel draw, the image size is getting differed when EMF is imported to framemaker. coreldraw exported EMF gets correctly fitted in the framemaker 7cm template whereas illustrator EMF doesnt do. Do i have to do something with the framemaker or adobe illustrator setting. Can anyone please help?

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

When saving/exporting Illustrator files, I'd stick with

Illustrator native saved as PDF-Compatible
Save as PDF
Save as EPS (using Artboard)

I just had success with all three of these formats (a 3" square artboard, containing a 2" square element. Each came in properly.

Failed formats:

Saving as native AI without PDF preview gives a message scolding me about the PDF preview
saving as EPS without using the artboard gave a wonky-looking graphic, but appeared to be the proper size.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Van Kurtz

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Matt,

I have been saving as EPS from Illustrator for years WITHOUT artboard. Not a wonky-looking graphic amongst them.

Van

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

@Van: I'm with you!!! My first version of AI was Illustrator '88, and it's the *only* vector tool I use/have used. (Why mess with a great thing?) I'm sure the output would have been perfect with the placed file sans artboard, but the preview in Fm looked goofy. and the graphic properties reported a file that was somewhat larger than the original. On the other hand, the files imported with the artboard showed a perfect 3" for H and W, with the graphic in the middle.

The options in AI CS6/CC can be overwhelming, though. Transparency, PDF, EPS (but which preview?) all impact the final result.

I was just suggesting the options that incorporated the artboard so that the imported file could more accurately be assessed. and the sizing issue get resolved. Saving with the artboard seemed to address that variable size issue.

Bottom line: I save as PDF compatible .ai file, and I *never* stray from .ai, .pdf, .eps formats for AI vectors. Even so, there are a lot of variations possible within the Save/Save As dialogs.

-Matt

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

I don't use EMF, but it is common for there to be a slight difference between the real image size and what FM reports.

For example, a 200 dpi EPS image I'm using is 694 pixels wide, which is correctly reported by both Illustrator and Photoshop as being 3.47 inches wide.

Frame says it's 3.472 inches (actually, 3.47222 in the MIF).

Frame is apparently using the size of the preview or thumbnail embedded in the EPS, which is 72 dpi (1/72 inch, or one "point" per pixel). 3.47 inches is 249.84 points, which rounds up to 250 points, which, divided by 72, is 3.47222.

Or are you seeing a larger difference?

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Anonymous

Yes, if I give 4 cm in illustrator, in framemaker the size is coming to 4.8 this makes to reduce the size in framemaker and so it is messing up the text size, but when exporting wmf in coreldraw it is perfectly fitting, is there a way to solve it?

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

4 vs. 4.8 is a large disparity.

Is this a raster, vector, or composite raster/vector image?

If any raster content, what dpi?

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