RE: eps problems

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thoughts. I have personally found that the best way around the import
and print limitations of various formats with FrameMaker is to ALWAYS,
repeat ALWAYS, print via PDF. In other words, I NEVER print directly to
a "real" printer from FrameMaker. I ALWAYS produce PDF and print from
Acrobat. Thus, EPS import always works as does printing. And I have
a good screen preview. No waiting for the printer to finish to find out
that the page looks lousy! (By the way, it isn't all that uncommon to
find that the time it takes to print a graphically complex document
directly from FrameMaker is greater than the time it takes to create a
PDF file and print that PDF file directly from Acrobat to the same
Printer. Very efficient PostScript is created by Acrobat's print process.

        - Dov


At 2/5/2003 04:43 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote:
>Understanding the pitfalls, though, had a bad experience with screen refresh
>using PDF and non-PS printers using CGM, and EPS.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isaacs@adobe.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:06 PM
>To: Matt Sullivan
>Cc: framers@frameusers.com; framers@omsys.com
>Subject: RE: eps problems
>
>
>ABSOLUTELY! There are indeed drawbacks! I would strongly recommend AGAINST
>it!
>
>Officially, FrameMaker really doesn't support "native" .AI files.
>What it does recognize are PDF files. Thus, if you save your .AI file
>with the option of including PDF content and embedded fonts, FrameMaker 7
>might recognize it. If you miss either of these, you can easily get
>messed up. Also, there is no guarantee of future compatibility.
>In other words, FrameMaker 7's recognition of Illustrator 10 .AI files
>is more by accident than by plan.
>
>Better to save Illustrator artwork as EPS and import that into FrameMaker.
>The EPS workflow is standard and for purposes of FrameMaker graphic
>placement,
>is not at all lossy compared to placing .PDF or .AI.
>
>        - Dov
>
>
>At 2/5/2003 03:59 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote:
>>I'm actually surprised Dov didn't extoll the virtues of placing a native
>>Illustrator 10 .ai file into the Frame doc. It not only prints well, but
>>previews faster in Frame, eliminating the delayed scrolling effect.
>>
>>To Dov, any drawbacks to the native .ai approach?
>>
>>-Matt


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