[Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

[tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com]

So, here's the low down: 1.) For the Word doc that contains the equations: >
In Word, under File / Options / Advanced / Image Size and Quality, I
selected "Do Not Compress Images in File" and changed the default output to
High fidelity. 2.) I then saved the doc as an htm/html file and followed the
instructions: In the Save As dialog box, Tools / Web Options / Pictures,
choose a screen size in higher quality such as 1920 x 1200 and set pixels
per inch to 120 ppi. 3.) After the file was saved and the PNGs extracted, I
selected a couple of equations and imported them into my FM document, but .
. . for some of these equations, 120 ppi made them incredibly small (some
equations are very simple and small is not so good, and some are very
complicated and small is good. They run the gamut), but I went ahead and
left them as-is. 4.) I made sure to use the High Quality Print job option
that I had modified ONLY to embed selected fonts (I did not change any of
the other options). 5.) I printed the file to .ps in a watched folder, which
was then distilled to a PDF. Looking at the file: Definitely much more clear
than w/out selecting all these options, but if the equation contained
subscripts or superscripts that had descenders (for example, the word
"drainage" w/ "g" having a descender), then that part of the font was blurry
or cut off altogether. The same thing happened when saving straight to HTML
w/out all these options and I figured the lack of resolution of the images
was the culprit. I was hoping that by selecting these options that this
issue would be alleviated, but alas, it does not appear to be the case. It's
obviously something about how Word saves equations to PNGs that I have
absolutely NO control over - it doesn't neatly save the descenders for any
superscript or subscript at all. With the vector image, that is not an
issue. And for grins and giggles, I downloaded a trial of MathType and
created a simple equation with a subscript that had a descender and saved
the file as an .gif, and the same problem occurred - not as blatant, albeit,
but still there. So, I guess the moral of this story is equations do not
like to be converted to a rasterized image and pounding them into submission
via the vector approach that I described gives me the clarity that I need in
my final PDF output. This list still rocks and I couldn't survive without
it. Y'all don't know how much I appreciate you and being able to be a member
of this community. TGIF!!! TVB Tammy Van Boening Tammy dot vanboening at
spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com -----Original
Message----- From: Framers On Behalf Of Lin Sims Sent: Friday, August 6,
2021 2:19 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
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 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 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 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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