Graphic distortion in frame pdf

[Fred Ridder]

Note that Dov's comments were from 2002, when FM 7.0 was the brand new version. 

Versions of FrameMaker prior to 7.0 did have some problems with PDF as an import format, which made EPS the safest graphic import format despite the fact that FrameMaker could not render the EPS for on-screen display. This meant that we had to suffer with either an ugly low-res raster preview image onscreen or else a gray rectangle if the EPS had not been created to contain a TIFF preview image.

But as of FM 8.0 (and maybe earlier), PDF import has worked reliably and for most of the last 10 years I have been happy to use PDF as my primary graphics import format. It has been at least 95% reliable (a few PDFs have had font issues) and the onscreen image in FrameMaker is basically as good as in Acrobat. 

-Fred Ridder

> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:05:04 -0600
> From: info at mikewickham.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Graphic distortion in frame pdf
> 
> I would recommend that you save your graphics as .EPS instead of .AI. 
> Unless I've overlooked a recent change, FrameMaker doesn't directly 
> support embedding of .AI files. They do sometimes work, though. Here's 
> an _old_ explanation from Dov Isaacs of Adobe:
> 
> "First of all, FrameMaker never really officially and fully supported 
> import of Adobe Illustrator .AI files. Officially, FrameMaker only fully 
> supports import of .EPS and .PDF files saved from Adobe Illustrator.
> 
> "Secondly, until several years ago, the .AI file format used by 
> Illustrator was almost identical to the .EPS format. In those cases, if 
> one attempted to import on of those .AI files, it often "worked" because 
> internally, despite not having a .EPS suffix, it looked like an EPS 
> file. The current (i.e., Illustrator 9 or 10) .AI format likewise can be 
> imported into FrameMaker if and only if the .AI file was saved with the 
> option to make the file PDF-compatible. (Contrary to an unfortunate 
> public perception, Illustrator's native file format is NOT PDF. 
> Illustrator stores its formatting information in a private data area 
> within what looks like a PDF file which can optionally have all of 
> Illustrator's private data repeated as genuine PDF data for display and 
> print in Acrobat.) In this case, FrameMaker is successful in importing 
> an Illustrator file because it has PDF information as well.
> 
> "The safest and most highly recommended method of Illustrator content 
> import into FrameMaker continues to be EPS."
> 
> Read Dov's full message text here: 
> http://www.freeframers.org/archive/02/msg01600.html
> 
> Mike Wickham
> 
> On 1/14/2014 8:13 AM, Chris Coggins wrote:
> >
> > Can someone explain how to fix the distortion that is occurring in 
> > graphic in the pdf output?
> >
> > I embedded the .ai file into the frame page and tried the "save as 
> > pdf" (high quality) and "print to pdf" (standard) methods of output, 
> > but the distortion occurs on both. I even tried creating a new frame 
> > file in case there was something hidden in the original file I was using.
> 
> 
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