[Framers] SVG blowing up Frame file size

[Art Campbell]

I haven't encountered it, but crop and modify PDFs all the time in
Photoshop. I believe there's also a cropping tool in the full version of
Acrobat.


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On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Craig, Alison <acraig at bkultrasound.com>
wrote:

> > Can you use PDF or EPS?
>
> I saved Visio drawings to PDF for years and imported them by reference
> into Frame with absolutely no problem. Then I had to upgrade to Visio 2013
> and now I can't get properly sized PDFs out of Visio.
>
> There is always some extra white space around the drawing even though that
> white space doesn't exist in the Visio file (I use the "Fit to Drawing"
> option with all Visio margins set to 0).
>
> If anyone else has encountered this problem and has a fix, I'd love to
> hear it.
>
> Alison
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+acraig=
> bkultrasound.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:15 PM
> To: Lin Sims; TECHWR-L Writing; Frame Users
> Subject: Re: [Framers] SVG blowing up Frame file size
>
>
> > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Robert Lauriston
> > <robert at lauriston.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe you have raster quality set really high? Otherwise, sounds like
> >> a bug in FrameMaker's SVG support.
> >>
> >> I experimented with various formats for Visio diagrams and found EMF
> >> worked the best.
> >>
> >> I never embed graphics in .fm files (what the FM docs call "import by
> >> copying"). I always import by reference.
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Pertinents:
> >> >
> >> > Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, Service Patch 1 FrameMaker 12,
> >> > latest patch Visio 2013
> >> >
> >> > I have a small diagram created in Visio and saved out to SVG that
> >> > is just blowing up the Frame file size.
> >> >
> >> > Frame file w/o graphic: 232,448
> >> > Frame file w/ graphic: 17,116,160
> >> >
> >> > Visio file: 150,011
> >> > SVG file: 15,830
> >> >
> >> > I've recreated the SVG file in case there was a corruption in the
> >> > conversion from .vsdx to .svg, but I'm getting the same result. A
> >> > somewhat similar diagram that has larger Visio (357,882) and SVG
> >> > (34,688) files sizes only increases the Frame file size to
> >> > 1,207,296.
> >> >
> >> > I'm fabbled. Does anyone have any ideas why this very, very simple
> >> > diagram should be making such a difference in the FrameMaker file
> >> > size?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Lin Sims
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