VISIO, WMF, and PNG

[Alan Litchfield]

Yeah. I took a double take on what Art said too.

So does that mean that Adobe have buggered up the pdf output engine? Or is it
that the nested pdfs already contain RGB colour definitions and those are
carried through to the final output, in the same way that eps acts as a
wrapper for the postscript colour definitions in images?

Perhaps Art could flight check the pdf images he used and confirm whether they
only contain spot, cmyk, or rgb, or some combination. Then say if those are
transformed when output from FM.

Alan

Lea Rush wrote:
> Please see below:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> Alan Litchfield wrote:
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>> > 5. So, what has been suggested on this list, and is an approach I use,
> is
>> > to print your Visio file to PDF and import that into FM.
>> >
>> > Therefore, I would say not to use PNG. Instead use PDF.
>>
>> What he said!
>
> <snip>
>
>> Assuming you have an Adobe PDF printer instance (i.e., you have
>> Distiller or the full version of Acrobat) installed on your system, it's
>> always avoidable by printing the vector graphic to PDF, which imports
>> nicely into FM. WRT Visio, this a much better solution than using its
>> less-than-optimal export filters to save as WMF or EPS.
>>
>> Richard
>
> Is there a way to reconcile this advice with what Art just posted?
>
>> In 9, using SaveAs to create a PDF with CMYK works, EXCEPT when the FM
> file
>> contains embedded PDFs -- in effect, nesting the PDFs.
>>
>> So it's partially whacked, but if you don't nest PDFs as imported graphics
> in FM, it
>> works.
>
> Hoping for a solution,
> Lea
>
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Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
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