Images lost in converting from Frame to PDF

[FunWrite]

Hello,

I'm converting a framemaker file to pdf that has quite a few images. However, there is a particular image where the color is lost in the pdf. I create the images in Adobe Illustrator and save them as eps file. The images are imported as a referenced file into Frame. In FrameMaker the images look perfectly fine but the pdf file loses it's colors when converted from FM to pdf. I am using FrameMaker 2017. Saving the figure in pdf from illustrator does not distort the image. Attached is the image where you can see the arrows have lost the colors.

[Matt-Tech Comm Tools]

Can you try saving that image as either AI or as PDF and then reproducing your PDF?

If those options don't work, I'd be happy to take a look at your AI file.

Message me by hovering over my name at the top of this reply.

-Matt

[Bob_Niland]

re: I create the images in Adobe Illustrator and save them as eps file.

What color model in AI (CMYK or RGB)?

What workflow from FM to PDF (CMYK or RGB)?

[FunWrite]

CMYK color model in AI

FM to PDF is also CMYK. Still appears to lose color when FM is saved as a pdf file.

[Matt-Tech Comm Tools · Accepted solution]

What happens if you

• remove the dropshadows
• move the arrows above the frames?

-Matt

[FunWrite]

Removing the drop shadows worked! Thanks Matt.

-Farnaz

[Matt-Tech Comm Tools]

Great!

It looked as if the rasterized d/s were obscuring the arrows themselves...glad we could figure it out.

[AbhishekSChauhan]

Hi Farnaz,

Can you please share the image file you generated from illustrator without removing drop shadows? (i.e. EPS file)

Thanks,