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Save as PDF Causes Vector Graphics to be Displaced from Frame

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June 1, 2023
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Since upgrading FrameMaker from 15 to 17.0, I have had an intermittent problem when using FrameMaker's File > Save as PDF function. Imported EPS and PDF graphics look fine in FrameMaker, but when the FM file is saved as a PDF, the graphics are shifted upward & out of the frame. This does not happen w/ raster files, or when I use the File > Print to PDF function.

This has never been an issue before, so I'm guessing it has something to do w/ the upgrade. Examples below:

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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Your graphic appears to be from a 3d modeling application, correct?

SVG is probably a better initial export of the image, and U3D would also give you some amazing options, especially if your engineer has enabled labeling and created animations, exploded views, and other things.

Here's a video I created about the U3D functionality that has been in FrameMaker since (yikes!) 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_s8SRWu2_M

-Matt

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Bob_Niland

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re: Imported EPS and PDF graphics look fine in FrameMaker…

Usually, what you see during FM edit is a raster preview/thumbnail image embedded in the EPS or PDF. Not sure this is a useful lead.

If you have a tool (such as Illustrator) than can do it, you might convert one or two to SVG and see what happens. If there are only a small number of affected imports, this might be work-around until the real problem is fixed.

McCready1982Author

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I converted an EPS file to an SVG, and miraculously, it stayed put in the output PDF, so thank you for that suggestion! I still hope to find the root cause of this, but this will help me get by until that happens.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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Well, I spoke too soon. Some of the SVG files are starting to jump to the top of the page in PDF too, now.

Some additional findings: My coworker has the same version of FrameMaker, and he is not having this problem. In fact, when I open his FM files and save to PDF, everything stays in place.

So the problem is in the files created on my system. I will keep investigating.

What app and export method are you using to create the graphics?

What happens if you open the PDF or EPS files into Illustrator?

My vector graphics issues (in any DTP app, including Fm) have always boiled down to the graphics file and/or app creating the graphic.

Or, put another way, non-Adobe print drivers and non-Adobe converters create PDF and/or EPS files that are problematic.

Not trying to be a "company man" but using Adobe stuff to create Adobe stuff can be a better use of time and resources.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Jeff_Coatsworth

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IIRC, v17 = FM2022, right? If so, have you applied Patch 2 already?

McCready1982Author

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Yes I have, this is 17.0.2.431.

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