VISIO, WMF, and PNG

[Art Campbell]

Lea,
The  bug that I passed along the info on is a result of using SaveAs PDF
from FM 9, which is intended to generate clean CMYK. As reported, IF the
Frame file contains PDFs already, it doesn't work well. The work-around,
until a patch is released to fix it, is to embed another file format such as
EPS, which apparently works fine.

Art


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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Lea Rush <lea at astoria-pacific.com> 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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