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Anonymous
April 30, 2010
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Illustrator graphic issue in achored frame

  • April 30, 2010
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How can I paste an Adobe Illustrator (AI) graphic into an achored frame? Instead of just the graphic, the picture comes in with the white art board background. I asked the question in the Illustrator forum and they said it was a FrameMaker issue. I'd rather not crop it in the frame. It just increases the size and makes the page scroll slower.

Thanks!

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    Art Campbell
    Inspiring
    April 30, 2010

    If I had to use a raw Illustrator file, I would import it by reference (File > Import (which creates the anchored frame for you)), not paste it in... and then adjust the offset of the graphic within the frame to display it properly and eliminate the white space.

    But if you're not going to modify the Illustrator file in the future, I'd save it as a PDF from Illustrator and do the File > Import process on the PDF.

    Note that if you work with a PDF, you can crop the file to eliminate any white canvas.

    Cheers,

    Art

    Van Kurtz
    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    May 3, 2010

    My experience is to always use eps files from Illustrator and not AI or PDF; and import by reference. The eps file is still editable in Illustrator, and there is no white area to crop out. The size of the eps is its bounding box.

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    Anonymous
    May 3, 2010

    I was just testing the AI file vs. the EPS file in my FrameMaker document. The AI file was clear. The imported EPS file had fuzzy lettering etc.

    I snagged the graphic from Frame...this is what the EPS pic looked like. This drawing was originally made in CorelDraw and converted to AI. Any thoughts? Thanks!

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    ArnisG
    Participating Frequently
    April 30, 2010

    FM only sees AI files as a form of PDF, and doesn't get all of the proper information. Remove or hide extraneous objects on your artboard and then save as EPS (or PDF, but FM converts to PDF to EPS internally anyway, so you can save a step). Select the anchored frame and then import the EPS by reference. If you try to copy & paste, you will get an OLE object and your graphic will actually render as a WMF.

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    Anonymous
    May 3, 2010

    Thanks for your help. Sounds like EPS is the way to go.

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