RE: Pb with image quality in Frame

["Smith, Terry" <Terry.Smith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No, you don't need to use bmps if the gifs look good. What dpi are you using
to import the graphics? You're not resizing them by dragging, true? Try
144dpi as a good starting place, then experiment from there. Also, if you
are doing any kind of downsampling in Distiller, that can really blur your
graphics in the PDF. If the copied-in graphics look good but not the
referenced ones, I wouldn't expect that to be the problem.

> 
> I usually ask the developers to send me a folder containing 
> all .gif images
> Yes, everything looks fine in Fullshot or paint. Shall I work with bmp
> files instead? I think I tried that anyway and it does not make a
> difference. Besides, I was told it's not a good idea to work 
> with bmp as it
> produces very heavy files.
> 
> The image quality looks ok although not as clear than if they had been
> copied & pasted  in my Frame files but when making a pdf and 
> later online
> help, some images are completly blurred or much worse than if 
> I had simply
> pasted them from word.
> What shall I do?
> Thanks
> Violaine Truck
> 
> 
> 
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> <Violaine.TRUCK@esterel-technologies.com>,         
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>                     14:42                 Subject:     RE: Pb 
> with image quality in Frame    
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> 
> It is very surprising that pasted-in graphics copied from 
> Word would look
> better than imported gifs. I always advise folks to avoid 
> graphics that
> have
> been pasted into Word, because it's the fastest way to ruin 
> your graphics.
> (If I'm not taking the screenshots myself, I make sure the 
> person who is
> sends me bmps, not just a Word file with pasted-in graphics.) 
> How are you
> creating the gifs? Do they look good when you open them in a drawing
> program? My first thought is that the colors in the graphics are being
> distorted when you convert them to gifs (which have only 256 colors).
> 
> -Terry Smith
> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: Pb with image quality in Frame
> >
> > I would like to understand why on earth the images I copy and
> > paste from a
> > word file directly into my frame files look much better 
> than the one I
> > would correctly import into frame by using the Frame6 command:
> > File/Import/File/my image.gif...
> > That is a mystery and a problem since I end up with non
> > referenced images
> > which after a while, make the whole book extremely heavy to
> > compile/save
> > and crashing from time to time...
> > What is the best practice I should adopt for including good
> > quality images
> > with the purpose of making pdf files and help on line.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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