Linking/Importing from FM and the pics are awful

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May 24, 2011
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I am using the TS3 suite with FM 10 and RH 9.

In FM, the pics (mostly embedded with no original picture file still present) look fine, and the generated PDF or printed docs look fine.

Importing or Linking into RH and all the pics are rubbish. Much too low res to be of any help, and scaling them up just makes it a bigger mess. Going to File>Project Settings>Import and selecting the Edit button under FM Document, go to Images: I have changed the default format a few times, adjusted scaling, width and height, with and without Do Not Regenerate and Use Distiller and still I get only rubbish.

Is there a setting someplace to bring the images across at a useable resolution? Recreating all the images is not a viable option.

Object properties in FM shows most to be DIB/Frame Image, or Frame Vector/PNG.

Thanks for the help.

FrameMaker integration

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RoboAsh

Participating Frequently

Is your settings "Use distiller to Generate Images" checked in the conversion setting dialog under images section, this might create very good quality images along with that you can set "Width" and "height" to 0 pt or else images will be generated as shown in FrameMaker source (scaled/squeezed).

Hope this helps

Ashish

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dcrouse10Author

Inspiring

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried with "Use Distiller..." both checked and unchecked with no difference.

I have also set Width and Height to 0pt with no change.

Is there a setting within Distiller that might help? It doesn't load visibly but if there is a setting in RH for it, it must be used somewhere along the line. Maybe its getting filtered at that stage. Anybody know?

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RoboAsh

Participating Frequently

Hmm it seems you yourself found the issue, the distiller option that is used from the FrameMaker, Open FrameMaker 10 and on the same machine

1. open Print Setup for FrameMaker (File->Print Setup)

2. Select Adobe PDF from the printers list

3. Click Properties and select "High Quality Print" from the the "Default Settings" combobox

4. Click OK, Click OK and close FrameMaker

Now try Force Update for FM links in RoboHelp

Hope this might help

Regards

Ashish

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

I think you posted this one in the wrong thread - it probably should be in the Framemaker Integration one. There are several postings about images (size & quality) in there.