eps images dissappear after updating the eps

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Yves,

 

Yes, I have seen this issue from time to time over the years. The bounding box explanation makes sense, although I have never tested it directly. Your “by hand” solution could be done programmatically with FrameScript. As far as your questions: since it is the imported graphic that gets messed up, this is probably the only graphic in the frame that you want to move. You would not want to move callouts, lines, etc. And you are right: it is impossible to know if the imported graphic was originally centered in the anchored frame, so you may have to make some manual adjustments after the script runs.

 

There is one way you could do this if you can pre-process the FrameMaker documents before updating the images:

 

1)      You would run a script before changing the images that would “mark” the contents of each anchored frame with its current X and Y offsets. Each object’s UserString property could be used to store the information. See http://frameexpert.com/tutorials/graphicstyles.htm for information on the UserString property.

 

2)      You would update the images.

 

3)      You would run another script that would go through the updated images in the FrameMaker documents and make sure each image’s X and Y location matches the value stored in the UserString property; if not, the script would correct it.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-659-8267

rick at frameexpert.com

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:51 AM
To: Rick Quatro; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: eps images dissappear after updating the eps

 

Hi Rick and the other FrameUsers

I have just tested this in Fm 7.2 and Fm 10 and, indeed, as soon as I save an Illustrator EPS file in a later version, for example version 8 saved as version 9 (or CS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), the Top and Left offsets of the anchored frame change. I have no idea why this happens, maybe someone from Adobe (Dov) can tell us?

I did find a more recent post about this problem in the Adobe forums:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1238889

Indeed, the problem must be related to the way in which Illustrator saves the bounding box of the graphic. The only way to fix this problem is a Framescript, I guess, but I think the only thing which the framescript can do is:

1. Select the anchored frame.
2. Edit > Select all in frame.
3. Graphics > Align > T/B Centers, L/R Centers, because there is no way to know the original position of the graphic in the AFrame.

But:

* What if the AFrame contains multiple "objects", i.e. multiple graphics and/or callouts (text frames or text lines)?
* What if the AFrame contains a graphic which is not supposed to be aligned T/B Centers, L/R Centers within the AFrame?

Kind regards

Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu



 

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