CorelDraw Embedded Graphics

[Steve Rickaby]

At 10:51 +0300 29/5/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:

>I have a Frame document with several embedded CorelDraw graphics. In some of the graphics, the text is very choppy. That is, each letter is a series of short lines. This text looks very bad. In other CorelDraw graphics in the same document, the text is fine. Does anyone have any ideas when or why this happens, or how to avoid it. Thanks

Shmuel... I have a vague memory of seeing this in Corel documents long ago. I would guess [emphasize: guess] that the most likely cause is that the text in question has been converted into outlines, and then the graphics files have been created from Corel Draw in a form that FrameMaker can use by a sub-optimal output filter. There is a parallel issue with, for example, Visio, in which some versions [all?] of Visio produce poor Postscript.

If this is the case, your only recourses are:

. Revisit the original artwork, if it is available, to try other output formats

. Edit the relevant diagrams in, say, Illustrator, to replace the bad text.

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Steve