Imported PDF looks poor

[Alison Craig]

As far as I am aware, printing from Frame directly to a printer will never produce good copy as Frame is not intended to be used that way (I think of it as "almost WYSIWYG" or "blurry WYSIWYG").

Once you create the PDF from the Frame doc, simply print the PDF to obtain hard copies.

Alison


Alison Craig
Technical Documentation Lead

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of VLM TechSubs
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 8:35 AM
To: Framers; 'Free Framers'
Subject: Imported PDF looks poor

Greetings, and happy new year to everyone!

I'm using FM 8 on Win 7 x64. I have a PDF-actually, a plain old IRS form downloaded from the IRS site. I create a new FM document, clear out all the text frames on both the body and master page, then import the PDF onto the master page. My intent is to complete the form but with some custom modifications that FrameMaker happens to make quite easily (on the body page).

It all works just fine ... except for this: When I print this form from some PDF reader-any PDF reader that I've tried-it looks great. When I use FrameMaker to print the same form, not so great. Both on screen and on paper, the text is all darkened, the edges of the letters no longer smooth and crisp. It's not unusable, but it certainly does not appear as it should.

If anyone has an idea as to what may be happening here, I'd appreciate your help. I have to prepare a number of these forms in various special ways.

Thank you kindly,
Elchanan
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