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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-Jun-03 11:55 AM, Roman Banks
wrote:<br>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Hi everybody,</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">I have a simple Visio drawing
containing basic Visio shapes (e.g., a rectangle with a green
background). I inserted a PNG (an icon with a transparent
background) via Insert-->Picture-->From File and put it
on top of the rectangle. So far, everything looked perfect.
However, when I embedded the Visio drawing in Framemaker
(without resizing), the icon became fuzzy and distorted. When
I opened the Visio from Framemaker - everything looked fine
again, but when I closed it, the icon had a stroke ;-). I
wasn't too concerned with that as I've seen many times that
Framemaker distorts images, but when converted to PDF, they
look OK again. However, it wasn't the case this time.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">When I converted the FM file to PDF
(File --> Save as PDF), the icon itself looked OK, BUT it
was surrounded by a white background! In the Distiller
settings, I deselected the "CMYK to RGB" option, and generated
the PDF again -- the white background disappeared, but the
icon looked fuzzy and distorted as in Framemaker.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Do you have any ideas what makes FM and
Distiller distort the drawing, and how to solve this problem?</div>
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AFAIK, FM still does not support transparency, so that's why you get
the white background. Not sure why the fuzziness, unless Visio is
producing a low-res preview as in EPS files. (I have never used
Visio.)<br>
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HTH a bit,<br>
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