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

[Reng Winfried]

Hi,

I have the same problem with SVG exported from 
Corel Designer. Parts of the graphics get shifted or stacked.
When I ungrouped everything prior to the export, the SVG
is still distorted in FrameMaker. Pitty that this does not work.

The only work-around which I know is:
In Corel Designer select everything and convert only the selected content to PDF.
In InkScape open the PDF, crop the page to the imported content (with 1 mm offset)
and export to SVG.
Not good for 700 graphics files in my installation instructions ...

Best regards

Winfried

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+w.reng=carecom-solutions.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 3:03 PM
To: Frame Users <framers at lists.frameusers.com>; amitosin at adobe.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] Now it's a buggy SVG IMPORT into Frame 2019 files

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