Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?

Fri Feb 27 09:15:54 PST 2015

And it's making a liar out of me. I just tried it again, and this time it
worked.

Honestly, sometimes it isn't even worth banging your head against a table.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried that, too, actually. First thing I did, and I should have listed
> it.
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Combs, Richard (CW) <
> Richard.Combs at polycom.com> wrote:
>
>> If what the FM10 help says is correct, this is because FM10 apparently
>> didn’t import the graphics in native SVG format (emphasis added):
>>
>>
>>
>> When importing a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG), the SVG Import dialog box
>> allows the user to select the *rasterization* quality of the image. By
>> increasing the rasterization quality, printed and PDF versions are crisper;
>> however, increasing the rasterization also increases the file size of the
>> image, and it takes longer to import it.
>>
>> FrameMaker prints Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images to PostScript
>> printers by *rendering* the images as vector graphics using Encapsulated
>> PostScript (EPS). For non-PostScript printers, FrameMaker uses the
>> FrameImage format.
>>
>> If I’m interpreting this correctly, FM10 converted SVGs to raster
>> (bitmapped) images on import. It rendered those bitmaps as vector graphics
>> when outputting to a PostScript device (printer or PDF), but at that point
>> the text is not text, just lines – vectors describing a sequence of dots.
>>
>>
>>
>> So the damage is done upon import, and nothing done subsequently can undo
>> it. You have to reimport the original SVGs.
>>
>>
>>
>> My sympathies.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
>> framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Lin Sims
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 27, 2015 6:22 AM
>> *To:* Davis, David
>> *Cc:* framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> *Subject:* Re: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?
>>
>>
>>
>> Syed,
>>
>> Are these brand new files created by FM12, or are these files you
>> converted from an earlier version? I ask because I've discovered that (at
>> least for me) the text-searchable SVG graphic bug, which is listed as fixed
>> for FM12, is only fixed if you're talking about new documents. None of the
>> documents I have that were converted from FM10 to FM12 will produce PDFs
>> with text-searchable SVG graphics. All of the documents that are created in
>> FM12 produce PDFs with searchable SVG graphics.
>>
>> So far I've determined that MIF-washing doesn't fix this, that you can't
>> simply import the contents of the FM10 file into the FM12 file, and that
>> you can't copy & paste using the Frame Interchange Format. Copy & pasting
>> as Unicode text does work, but of course you then have to reapply all your
>> formatting tags and recreate all your xrefs and conditionaled content.
>> Oddly, you can copy and paste the tables in without causing an issue.
>>
>> Note that my company's workflow is to use unstructured FM with embedded
>> graphics; I do not know if this applies to structured FM or XML files or
>> referenced graphics.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Davis, David <
>> David.Davis at non.schneider-electric.com> wrote:
>>
>> If people have a problem with a specific bug, I really would recommend
>> logging it in the Adobe bug tracker.
>> When I logged my CMYK issue, there was already one other bug report in
>> there for the same thing, and I did get a fix within about 3 months,
>> which is a pretty good turnaround for a behemoth like FrameMaker!
>> The more people log a bug. the higher a priority it will get with their
>> dev team.
>>
>> David
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Denis Daly [d.daly at icpnewtech.com]
>> Sent: 27 February 2015 08:56
>> To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); Davis, David;
>> framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: RE: Did I miss the FM12.0.4 Update Announcement?
>>
>> Please keep us informed of your experiences with the CMYK issue Syed.
>>
>> I (along with many others) was hoping this latest update would have
>> solved the problem.
>>
>> Denis
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