[Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

[tammyvb spectrumwritingllc.com]

Hi Lise,

I won’t bore you with all the details, but unfortunately, a screen grab direct from the Word doc is not an option.

Thanks for replying. . . Believe me, it just helps to know that someone is trying for me😊

Sent from my iPhone. Pardon the typos.

> On Aug 5, 2021, at 5:42 PM, Lise Bible <rentagoodbook at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tammy, that sounds hair-tearingly-out frustrating!
> I don't have any brilliant technical clues to help you, but would it be
> just as fast (e.g., slow) to use Snag-It to capture the equation in Word
> when it's on-screen, and save that?
> If you're already opening the exported images from Word in Snag-it, would
> that save a step?
> Or does that not result in any great advantage or better resolution? I
> don't have Snag-it on this computer so I don't know what the image
> resolution options are when capturing.
> 
> Good luck!
> Lise
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 5:32 PM <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have an equation-laden document that I am writing. The equations are
>> being
>> created in a Word doc (.docx) using Word's native equation editor. The
>> .docx
>> file is then saved as an .htm/.html file and all the equations in the
>> document are automatically saved as .pngs in a separate folder named as
>> image.(n), where n is the image number.  I double-click an equation in this
>> folder to automatically open the equation in my image editor (SnagIT - I
>> don't need anything as heavy as Photoshop as I am not doing any
>> modifications to the equations) and save the equation without any changes
>> to
>> it whatsoever with a new name. I then import the image into Framemaker by
>> reference.   I don't mess w/ the dpi of the image when I select it for
>> import - any image in the folder that was created during the saving of the
>> Word file shows a dpi of 96 in the Imported Graphic Scaling dialog box when
>> I select it for import and although this seems nutty to me (because none of
>> the images are over-sized). . . they look clear and crisp in the source FM
>> file (The Advanced Properties of any image in SnagIT is also showing a
>> resolution of 96 dpi);  however, upon generation of the PDF, it goes to
>> h*ll
>> in a handbasket. The equation looks almost as if the font is almost bold
>> and
>> therefore much darker than the text in the FM source file, and it's not
>> nearly as crisp and clear as in the source FM document - it actually looks
>> blurry/pixelated.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Initially, the font that was  being used in the equations is Cambria Math,
>> Size 14 with a default color of black without any lightening of the color.
>> (The font that is being used in the book is also set to a default color of
>> black without any lightening of the color.) I tried lightening the font
>> color by different percentages in the Word document and then regenerated
>> the
>> equations as graphics, and that helps a bit, but overall, these graphics
>> are
>> just not nearly as crisp as they need to be in the final PDF.  Any other
>> graphics that were taken as a capture and then imported by reference as
>> PNG
>> are as crisp as I am used to in FM.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am just at a loss for how to get this cleared up, but it's absolutely
>> mandatory that I get this problem resolved because the whole focus of the
>> book is the equations.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Any thoughts are sincerely appreciated.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> TVB
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Tammy Van Boening
>> 
>> Principal/Owner
>> 
>> Spectrum Writing, LLC
>> 
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>> 
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