FM12 - Converting to pdf and odd happenings with images

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June 21, 2018
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Hello all,

Some images are showing up fine in the .pdf (note the very top part of this image is a previous page having an image). The bottom part (what appears as a blueish box) is actually an image that is not displying properly in the pdf. I can select this blue box and copy/paste into a word document and the image is shown.

Not sure yet why this is happening to some of the images.

Appreciate any advice.

regards,

Ben

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RBKearnsJrAuthor

Inspiring

Still playing around with this as time permits....

I noticed that moving the image outside of the anchored frame and then saving as .pdf, the image displays as expected.

So.....

Latest experiment:

Deleted frame and image that was imported (was imported by ref.).

Added a graphic frame to the page and then imported the image.

Saved as .pdf and the image displays as expected.

Not sure why this works but not a very efficient workaround. As mentioned prior, seems something is wrong with this document (doing mif "wash" did not matter....

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

I have "mixed" success with that route. Check the http://techcomm.tools/pdf page, and see if that setup clears it up.

I've been able to use these settings even after my Win updates lately.

-Matt

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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RBKearnsJrAuthor

Inspiring

OK.

I will follow-up with your suggestion.

In the meantime, I pulled the .pdf up in Acrobat. The same results (empty blue box). I selected "bring to front" and the image displays. I then tried to "bring to front" in the .fm and then save as pdf again. However, this unfortunately did not make a difference.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

Even happens with .png.....

Sorry Ben, I wrote my previous note too quickly...I was mentioning that if an image is reprocessed, then the JPG will be reinterpolated, causing further potential loss in the image.

In all cases, stay away from JPG for screenshots.

In the images below, not the mottled yellow and blue in the flat color areas. Perhaps not a deal breaker for this image, but by choosing a more appropriate format, you can get the best out of the image. Also, you may find in many cases that the PNG is the same size or smaller than the JPG.

Here's a JPG

And here's the same image in PNG

*** Because these images were both opened in Photoshop, their pixel size in PS is exactly the same, resulting in the exact same size (636.3 K) being reported by PS. In this case, the slightly-better-quality-PNG is 28% the size of the JPG