CGM images from structured FrameMaker

[Fred Wersan]

Hi Rick,

I don't think I have exact answers for your questions, but I'll share my experience with CGM exports. I looked into this in the context of experimenting with round tripping of files from frame to XML and back. Firstly, the CGM images are lousy - far inferior to the original graphics or jpg or png. So there was no good way to round trip frame graphics without losing quality. However, I found that imported graphics - png or jpg, were referenced in the XML, so that if I round tripped and the original source graphics were still in their original location, I ended up with decent graphics. My solution for the frame graphics that I wanted was to take a screen capture of them and use that instead. Not as good as real frame graphics, but way better than the CGM.

Fred

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