Linking/Importing from FM and the pics are awful

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May 24, 2011
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I am using the TS3 suite with FM 10 and RH 9.

In FM, the pics (mostly embedded with no original picture file still present) look fine, and the generated PDF or printed docs look fine.

Importing or Linking into RH and all the pics are rubbish. Much too low res to be of any help, and scaling them up just makes it a bigger mess. Going to File>Project Settings>Import and selecting the Edit button under FM Document, go to Images: I have changed the default format a few times, adjusted scaling, width and height, with and without Do Not Regenerate and Use Distiller and still I get only rubbish.

Is there a setting someplace to bring the images across at a useable resolution? Recreating all the images is not a viable option.

Object properties in FM shows most to be DIB/Frame Image, or Frame Vector/PNG.

Thanks for the help.

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RoboAsh

Participating Frequently

Is your settings "Use distiller to Generate Images" checked in the conversion setting dialog under images section, this might create very good quality images along with that you can set "Width" and "height" to 0 pt or else images will be generated as shown in FrameMaker source (scaled/squeezed).

Hope this helps

Ashish

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dcrouse10Author

Inspiring

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried with "Use Distiller..." both checked and unchecked with no difference.

I have also set Width and Height to 0pt with no change.

Is there a setting within Distiller that might help? It doesn't load visibly but if there is a setting in RH for it, it must be used somewhere along the line. Maybe its getting filtered at that stage. Anybody know?

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dcrouse10Author

Inspiring

Hmm, Curious.

I add a new pic to the file, same format (PNG), same scaling (38%), all embedded, and then dump to RH. The new pics look fine in the output, while all the old pics are still unreadable.

Is there a hidden flag someplace that may limit the output resolution? The old pics/files I inherited, and I doubt they were all made with the current version of FM. Does anyone know of any discrimination against updated FM files? Some change that could affect the output?

RH creates a CPD file that can become bloated and corrupt. It can be deleted and will be recreated when needed. Does FM create a similar file that might have cracks in it? Clearing that might help.

Thoughts? Thanks.

More food for thought.

In FM I copy the frame (with pic) of a bad pic and paste it along side. In RH it both are rubbish.

However, if I copy just the pic in FM and paste it by itself, FM creates a new frame for it. This pic is fine in RH.

There must be some property of the anchored frame itself that is messing up the import to RH. Perhaps some artifact of an upgrade from an earlier version, perhaps?

There is nothing out of the ordinary in the any of the properties screens (Object or Anchored Frame) that I can find. Does anybody (hello, Adobe!) know if there is someplace else to look? Then, maybe, hopefully, fix the glitch with a script?

Then again, I add a second pic to the same frame and it goes back to garbage again ! ?

These are all embedded pics.

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

I think you posted this one in the wrong thread - it probably should be in the Framemaker Integration one. There are several postings about images (size & quality) in there.