Re: Get Unix FM to import PDFs?

[Fred Ma <fma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: Get Unix FM to import PDFs?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:41:51 -0500
From: Fred Ma <fma@doe.carleton.ca>
Newsgroups: adobe.framemaker,comp.text.frame
References: <3E87719F.8AB57CA9@doe.carleton.ca> <1de885d8.0@WebX.la2eafNXanI>

Ian Burton wrote:

> Hello Fred,
> As I understand it, PDFs imported to FM in Windows have the graphic facet EPS. That is they're converted to EPS by Frame (or Acrobat - not sure here). In any case I would think the best way to get a graphic out of a PDF would be to use the graphics crop tool in Acrobat reader and save the cropped page as an EPS file.
> So once the graphic is in EPS there's no UNIX/WINDOWS issues. Regarding file sizes, if the graphic is referenced, where's the problem. If the real issue is that upgrading disks in UNIX boxes is time consuming and expensive OK, but using PDF graphics instead of EPS won't help here.
> FWIW
> Ian

Hi, Ian,

Converting PDF to EPS is not a problemon our system.  I use acroread,
then ps2epsi.  But the file size is a problem.

I had a friend try it.  The FM file size increases by approximately the size of the
imported file.  So that's 6x difference between importing PDF vs. EPS.  I have
a personal thing about importing by copying (rather than by reference), and
there's been many situations in my past use of FM where importing by
reference got me in trouble (just keeping track of the auxiliary files, when to
delete them after deleting a figure and making sure no other figures in other
FM files that make use of it, just plain forgetting to bring transfer a figure
file with the FM file, maintaining sufficiently different file names when the
figure count gets high, etc.).  But even importing by reference requires that
the EPS file be kept around, which is still 6x bigger in size than PDF (for my
figures).

Our university gets FM and acroread free (or close to it, I think), and I
can't do any edits with acroread.  it is purely a reader.  But since we have
the above alternative to extracting EPS, it's solved.  The filesize problem
remains, though.

Fred

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