[Framers] Appearance of graphics in the generated PDF

Fri Aug 6 20:20:21 PDT 2021

Ummm... I thought about going outside the box and searched the web for
extracting images from PDF. One of the interesting results suggested using
Export all images from within Acrobat. Of course, one needs to start by
saving or exporting the Word source document to PDF. I don't have a running
version of FM to import an exported TIFF, JPG, or PNG and evaluate the
result. Could be worth a try. IIRC, this isn't one of the methods you've
mentioned.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 4:48 PM <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:

> 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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