re: Text in WMFs in Frame = unreadable text in Acrobat

[Shlomo Perets <shlomo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ananda,

You wrote:

> Frame 7.1 for Windows, Acrobat Pro 7 ...

> I got the task to convert a huge Word book to Frame. Being under
> a time crunch, I left many of the graphics just the way they were
> when Frame imported them. I've now found out that many of the
> graphics came in as WMFs. They look fine in Frame, but any text
> in those graphics looks lousy to unreadable in the PDF -- the letter
> size went way up, so all of the letters in a word overlap. There's
> another graphic in the PDF that got truncated -- the top 20% of the
> graphic is just not there in the PDF, though it looks and acts just
> fine in the Frame source file.

> I don't remember having this problem with WMFs the last time I
> used them (circa 5.5.x - 6.0). Is this a new problem, or has something
> else gone wonky?

There is a new, FM7.1-specific problem, which causes text in some
WMF files to be distorted when printed or converted to PDF
(fonts substituted, characters are expanded and overlapped).
The WMF files are displayed properly in FrameMaker; printing the
same file using FM7.0 produces right results.

Unrelated to this, graphics included in Word files converted to
FrameMaker are often distorted; re-inserting the original graphics
in FrameMaker is recommended.


Shlomo Perets

MicroType * http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker training & consulting * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers
Template Design, Single Sourcing, FM-to-PDF & Technical Indexing seminars




** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx **
** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body.   **