FM and Distiller distort Visio drawing

[Stuart Rogers]

On 2013-Jun-03 11:55 AM, Roman Banks wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have a simple Visio drawing containing basic Visio shapes (e.g., a 
> rectangle with a green background). I inserted a PNG (an icon with a 
> transparent background) via Insert-->Picture-->From File and put it on 
> top of the rectangle. So far, everything looked perfect. However, when 
> I embedded the Visio drawing in Framemaker (without resizing), the 
> icon became fuzzy and distorted. When I opened the Visio from 
> Framemaker - everything looked fine again, but when I closed it, the 
> icon had a stroke ;-). I wasn't too concerned with that as I've seen 
> many times that Framemaker distorts images, but when converted to PDF, 
> they look OK again. However, it wasn't the case this time.
> When I converted the FM file to PDF (File --> Save as PDF), the icon 
> itself looked OK, BUT it was surrounded by a white background! In the 
> Distiller settings, I deselected the "CMYK to RGB" option, and 
> generated the PDF again -- the white background disappeared, but the 
> icon looked fuzzy and distorted as in Framemaker.
> Do you have any ideas what makes FM and Distiller distort the drawing, 
> and how to solve this problem?
>


AFAIK, FM still does not support transparency, so that's why you get the 
white background.  Not sure why the fuzziness, unless Visio is producing 
a low-res preview as in EPS files. (I have never used Visio.)

HTH a bit,

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Stuart Rogers
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