Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing from Frame to Robohelp?

[Mike Wickham]

The cloudy artifacts that JPG puts around text may not be noticeable if 
you save the JPG at highest quality, but the more compression you use, 
the more annoyingly obvious it becomes. I believe the original poster in 
this thread said that the document was intended for the Web, and since 
it is typical to compress to high levels to create smaller files for Web 
download, it is probably a safe assumption that the original poster 
would use a high amount of compression and create those artifacts.

I don't use PNGs, but I seem to recall the issue that FrameMaker has of 
creating hundreds of colors with PNGs only occurs when the PNGs are 
saved with a bit depth other than 8. I'm sure someone more familiar with 
them will pipe in.

Mike Wickham.

On 1/15/2012 9:48 PM, John Sgammato wrote:
>
> With all due respect to my colleagues on this forum, IMO the line 
> between JPG and other formats is no longer as neat as it once was. 
> Many screenshots in Win 7 require gradients that JPG handles well. IMO 
> anything that a photo can handle might not be so far removed as you 
> might think from basic screen captures, We are no longer in the 
> cartoony Win 3.x world.
>
> And since AFAIK FrameMaker still imports eleventyhundred colors with 
> every .PNG file, I do not see why a PNG with its headaches is superior 
> to the no-longer-extant difficulties of the .JPG format.
>
> Craving enlightenment...
>
> john
>
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