Re: Extracting embedded graphics from a FM file

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, those tech notes are somewhat misleading. In fact, based
on my experiments, all you get out of the "save as HTML" suggested
by those notes are bitmaps, even in the case in which you coerce
EPS. Those EPS are simply bitmaps of what appears to be the original
TIFF preview (ughhh!). You want to preserve scalability of vector
graphics as well as text as text, the original advice of 
PS=>PDF=>Crop-&-Export-PDF-from-Acrobat still stands.

        - Dov


At 9/21/00 12:45 AM, Michael Cudmore wrote:
>"Jeremy H. Griffith" wrote:
>
>>                                    the only control over graphics
>> is a choice between GIF, JPEG, and PNG; no DPI adjustment setting.
>
>People might find these Adobe documents interesting:
>
>"Import and Export File Formats Supported by FrameMaker 5.5"
>http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/4486.htm
>
>"How to Export Graphics and Equations from FrameMaker 5.5 and Later"
>http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/238e2.htm
>
>Excerpt from the first document:
>
>> The following is a list of the import and export formats that 
>> Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 products support:
>
>...
>
>> Graphics Export Formats 
>> Note: For instructions on exporting graphics from FrameMaker, see
>> document 318896, "How to Export Graphics and Equations from
>> FrameMaker 5.5 and Later."
>> 
>> CGM 1, 2, and 3
>> EPS, EPSF, EPSI (TIFF & WMF Preview)
>> FrameVector
>> GIF (CompuServe)
>> JPEG
>> PICT
>> PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
>> TIFF 
>
>Which suggests that we have a much wider range of file formats
>(including VECTOR formats) to choose from when exporting from
>FrameMaker. I have only just begun testing this, using EPS as the
>export format. It looks promising as a way of getting framemaker-drawn
>graphics into eps files with TIFF preview, without resotring to a long
>FM->PS->Distiller->Acrobat->crop page->EPS export loop. (Whether it is
>a better method, or generates more usable EPS, is another question
>...) 
>
>--
>Michael Cudmore


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