eps image looks lousy in Frame. What should I do differently?

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi Theresa,

An explanation would be that you created the PDF not with the
Adobe PDF printer but with a non-PostScript printer. Then only
the screen display is used to print EPS files.

I recommend the free SetPrint utility to use Adobe PDF as
the default printer just for FrameMaker:
http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm

Do all other images have the correct resolution in the same
PDF?

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of 
> Theresa de Valence
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 9:58 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: eps image looks lousy in Frame. What should I do differently?
> 
> Version 8.0p Frame
> Version 10.0.1 Photoshop
> Version 8.2.6 Adobe Acrobat Professional
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring up this 
> issue, but my 
> frame document is the one with the problem.
> 
> I have been making marketing documents in frame. I built the group's 
> logo in Photoshop starting with an image I found on the 
> internet of both 
> North and South America using, mostly, dark blue and dark green and 
> added some text into a file called logoc.psd.
> 
> Somewhere I read that the correct way to use a Photoshop file 
> in Frame 
> is to convert the Photoshop file into .eps
> 
> I converted the logo to eps (logoc.eps). It was copied into a 
> frame in a 
> Frame document where I use other text and graphics created in 
> Frame to 
> make a letterhead-style document in Frame. This document is 
> referenced 
> by other Frame documents which become my marketing flyers. 
> The colourful 
> pdf works fine which I have distributed electronically.
> 
> Now, I'm building the Conference Guide for the group. The guide will 
> have everything but the outside cover printed in B&W. I am converting 
> everything to B+W because I want to control how the images 
> will print. 
> In Photoshop I converted logoc.psd to logobw.psd and later to 
> logobw.eps. In the Frame document which has my letterhead 
> style, I have 
> defined "colours" in frame which are 5% grey, 10% grey, 25% grey, etc.
> 
> In the pdf which uses logobw.eps the continents and text (in 
> the image) 
> are very blurry. It's as though the b+w image has been 
> increased to 150% 
> of the original without enough pixels.
> 
> In both cases (logoc and logobw) when converted to .eps, the 
> image (as 
> displayed in Adobe Bridge) is about 1/4 the visual size as 
> the .psd. In 
> Frame, logoc.eps looks funny on screen, but renders correctly 
> in .pdf. 
> In Frame, logobw.eps looks the same onscreen as it looks when 
> rendered 
> in .pdf, which is lousy.
> 
> I've been using Frame for 20+ years but I'm a neophyte at Photoshop.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Theresa