[Framers] Now it's a buggy SVG IMPORT into Frame 2019 files

[Lin Sims]

I've a new update, in case anyone is still curious about this. I've added
the information to Tracker, also.

I had been trained to group all the objects in Visio before saving out to
SVG, and that was the process I was using back in October, probably because
it was the only way to save just the graphics without including the whole
page they were on. When we switched to using PDF format as a workaround,
though, we had to shrink the page to fit the image, and today it occurred
to me to see what would happen if I did NOT group the objects before saving
out to SVG.

Lo and behold, the issue is fixed. None of the lines or text additions to
screenshots or photographs are moved when I import the SVG into Frame as
long as the objects in the Visio file aren't grouped. How weird is that?

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:28 AM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Yves,
>
> Did they loop you in on this? :-)
>
> As far as I can tell, there are no options in Visio to change how
> fonts/glyphs are embedded, but I'm not a Visio power user. All I know is
> that graphic when saved from Visio as an SVG looks fine in a browser, but
> if you try to import the SVG into FrameMaker or Illustrator, the graphic
> callouts and any text get shifted. The same graphic exported from Visio to
> PDF, however, looks fine when it is imported into FrameMaker, and that's my
> current focus. Since that works, that's what we're going with until Adobe
> has a fix.
>
> Adobe had suggested editing positioning information in the SVG as a
> potential workaround, but that gets fiddly and time intensive and really
> wasn't viable, especially since Adobe is working to correct the issue. We'd
> just have to redo the images again once the fix is available.
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:17 AM Yves Barbion <yves.barbion at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lin
>>
>> Looks like a problem with font embedding in the SVG files. I don't know
>> about Visio, but in Adobe Illustrator, you can select font embedding
>> settings when you save your graphic as SVG: subset only glyphs used, all
>> glyphs, no glyphs (and use system fonts) etc.
>>
>> Maybe you could do some tests with those settings? There may be one which
>> works with Fm 2019.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Yves
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 22:01, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > If it's not one thing, it's another.
>> >
>> > I'm still on Windows 7, so I've continued importing my images into Frame
>> > 2017 as SVG files since I have no issues creating PDFs from them.
>> >
>> > But we've JUST upgraded to Frame 2019, and now the IMPORT of SVG images
>> > into Frame has gone screwy. In this case, the images are screenshots
>> taken
>> > with SnagIt, pasted into Visio where graphic callouts and a text box
>> > containing the graphic's number is added, and exported to SVG.
>> >
>> > When the resulting SVG is imported into FrameMaker, all the callouts and
>> > the graphic's number MOVE, either to the right (in the case of the
>> > callouts) or to the left (in the case of the text box containing the
>> > graphic's number).
>> >
>> > For now, I'm giving up on SVGs and we're just going to import Visio
>> files,
>> > since that doesn't appear to have any problems. I have non-proprietary
>> > examples of the issue (as JPG images) for those interested in a look.
>> I'm
>> > not attaching them because I can't remember if the list software scrapes
>> > attachments off or not. I've also posted a query in the Adobe FrameMaker
>> > forum. I'm still debating whether to file a bug report. <sigh>.
>> >
>> > Weekend, here I come.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Lin Sims
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