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Anonymous
February 7, 2011
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Photoshop Images displaying a horizontal line

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Framemaker 10 - Photoshop files (PSD) that I import (File -> Import -> File -> Copy into document) into my master pages are all displaying a horizontal line on the right side of the image. The line is not in the original image. Does anyone know what is causing this anomoly?  Thanks Chris.

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    Anonymous
    February 28, 2011

    Hi Chris,

    I am also evaluating Framemaker 10 and I have exactly the same problem with the vertical line

    appearing on on the right-hand side of some images in the PDF output. Saving as png

    of course removes the line, but all the images are in my user manuals are currently

    saved as psd, one of the plus points of framemaker for me is being able to accept this

    format.

    My experiences:

    - Flatten layers, not applicable for company logo and doesn't work with the other images having this problem.

    - I only import by reference, so makes no difference here.

    - There is no line in the original psd file, also created pdfs using in-house tool and no line shown.

    - Creating an additional layer, removed the vertical line from the output for single layer files. However,

      doesn't work the files that are already multi-layer.

    I'd appreciate your feedback from the photoshop forum Chris.

    Best wishes,

    Karen

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    peggyg91046241
    New Participant
    August 22, 2011

    Hello Everyone,

    I'm having the same issue with the vertical line appearing on the right side of my .psd image in FrameMaker, but only when it is printed to .PDF.

    Here are some of the things I've tried:

    • Checked the .psd image for layers and found none. Therefore, it can't be flattened.
    • Zoomed in on the right side to see if I have any phantom pixels, but have found none.
    • Used the trim tool (Image>Trim). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
    • Tried saving as a pdf instead of printing to .pdf, but it still has the line.

    The line reminds me of the "track edits" line that appears in the left margin of the text when tracking edits in FrameMaker. If I save the Photoshop image as an .eps file with Tiff preview and then print to .pdf from FrameMaker, the line isn't there. Has anyone figured out if it's a FrameMaker, Photoshop, or Acrobat thing?

    Thanks,

    Peg

    Bob_Niland
    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    August 23, 2011

    Has anyone figured out if it's a FrameMaker, Photoshop, or Acrobat thing?

    Not so far, and if they have in some other forum, they haven't reported back here yet.

    And the list of suspects above isn't complete. It could also be a Windows GDI bug, or an Nvidia graphics driver bug. In a case I'm looking at right now, the line goes away at 6400% mag in Acro Pro 9 on Win9/64.

    I have played with what may be a work-around. I have flat (bitmapped) 600 dpi tiffs that exhibit this problem. However, if the right edge of the tiff is clipped by the anchored frame, or by a graphics frame within that frame, there is no phantom vertical line.

    Doing this routinely would require some blank margin around images, particularly vector EPS, so that there is something to crop with the clipping paths those frame types provide. White dots defining the extended extents in opposite corners would suffice.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    February 7, 2011

    Others have reported this - the answer was to flatten the layers first.

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    Anonymous
    February 7, 2011

    Hi Jeff,

    Thanks for your suggestion. I opened the Photoshop file (PSD) and selected Layer -> Flatten Image, then saved the file. I then deleted the previous image from my Framemaker 10 document and re-imported the image (File ->Import.>File-> copy into document). The horizontal line is still there. The only other solution that I've found at this fime is to output the file to PNG.One of the selling points of the Framemaker 10 product was the ability to link native Photoshop files to the document.Does anyone know if this is a bug in the software? Chris

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    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2011

    Suggestions:

    1.If the final output/deliverable is PDF AND the PDF is fine, then do not worry about it.

    2. Delete the image from the FrameMaker file, then import but import by reference, not copy.

    3. Save the PSD file in Photoshop eps, and import the eps file by reference.

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