[Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

For reference, PNG is _always_ a "raster" (a lossless, color bitmap), it is not a vector format at all. 

In general, for raster images, JPEG is decent to good for photographs only. If you want to keep lines and font "straight" (for example for business graphics and text, etc.) without any random pixel artifacts, then PNG is the right format for these. 

The quality of the bitmap (from vectors, fonts, etc.) is related to rasterization process settings (i.e., whatever internal conversion process is used for the equations in this case). 

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris.net at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Friday, August 6, 2021 1:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

I did a quick trial run. For whatever reason, converting to html provided TWO PNG files, one that had a good quality and one that was just miserable.
The good quality one is still raster, not vector, but it looked pretty good up to about 400% or so.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 4:16 PM Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography>
wrote:

> Lin harnessed the Force using Yoda-wisdom: "The sound of the right 
> answer comes from asking the right question! "
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, 3:08 PM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think I found the answer for how to get the PNG files to a higher
> > quality:
> >
> >
> >    -
> >
> >    In Word, under File / Options / Advanced / Image Size and 
> > Quality,
> check
> >    "Do Not Compress Images in File" and change the default output to High
> >    fidelity.
> >    -
> >
> >    In the Save As dialog box, Tools / Web Options / Pictures, choose a
> >    screen size in higher quality such as 1920x1200 and set pixels 
> > per
> inch
> > to
> >    120 ppi.
> >
> >
> > This is from:
> >
> >
> https://superuser.com/questions/1282555/saving-word-file-as-html-decre
> ases-quality-of-equations
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 3:46 PM <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Here is a summary of the issue:
> > >
> > > Equations originate from the client in MS Word.
> > >
> > > Tammy wants to save the equations as images for import into FrameMaker.
> > >
> > > The fastest way to do this is to save the Word file as HTML 
> > > because it rasterizes the equations as PNG files for inclusion in 
> > > the HTML. The problem is that the resolution of these rasterized 
> > > PNG files is 96 dpi, which
> is
> > > suitable for the web, but not for print. We can't see a way to 
> > > increase
> > the
> > > resolution in the Word rasterization process.
> > >
> > >
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