[Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

[Simon BUCH]

Hello,

How are you making the PDF?
Using File > Print, and sending the print job to the Adobe PDF printer?

I would first of all check the Adobe PDF print options.   The 'standard' 
settings will often downsample monochome, gray scale, and colour 
graphics to unacceptable quality.   Then remember that with Windows 
printer drivers, you not only have to configure the "Printing 
preferences", but you also *must* configure the "Advanced" 'Printing 
Defaults', usually with the same parameters.


I suspect that Word has stored the equations as 24 bit colour, which the 
Acrobat Distiller process is then mutating.
For most purposes, 8 bit gray scale is usually sufficient.


/// Simon BUCH


On 05/08/2021 23:32, 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.
>
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>
> 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.
>
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> 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.
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> Any thoughts are sincerely appreciated.
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> TVB
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> Tammy Van Boening
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> Principal/Owner
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> Spectrum Writing, LLC
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