RE: Frame 7 & SVG files

["Steve Whitlatch" <swhitlat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

SVG graphics are working for me as expected in FrameMaker 7.1 (structured, but
that probably does not matter in this case). For me, "as expected" means that
SVG is mostly a seamless replacement for EPS.

For FrameMaker 7.0, I am thinking that SVG is not supported.

I did find that Adobe Illustrator 10's SVG export was faulty. Specifically, when
Illustrator 10 exports SVG, it incorrectly specifies matrix attribute values on
text elements intended to run vertically. The result once displayed is a
terrible unpredictable mangle. In all cases in which I exported EPS to SVG using
Adobe Illustrator 10, it specified a matrix value not equal to zero for vertical
text elements (although very close to zero). The value needed to be exactly
zero. Very small error; disaster in the output.

Because SVG can be easily edited in an ASCII text editor, fixing it was easy
once I discovered what was wrong. So, there's one example of an SVG benefit.

Steve Whitlatch



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of waynefb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:41 AM
> To: framers@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Frame 7 & SVG files
>
>
> In my continuing struggle to improve certain things about the
> documentation my company provides, I have been redesigning a lot of
> our graphics. I am currently using OmniGraffle from the OmniGroup to
> do a lot of these on Mac OS X, then exporting them as both VISIO and
> PDF. We have used the PDF versions for everything and simply left the
> VISIO XML versions as backup so they can be edited on Windows later
> should we need to do so (I have the only Mac and it's my own
> PowerBook). The OmniGroup recently started allowing people to
> download a beta copy of the next version of OmniGraffle, which I
> downloaded. One new feature is the ability to export SVG files. I
> decided to test a few of these with FrameMaker 7 under Windows and
> found that they look fine under the Adobe SVG viewer from the
> desktop, however when imported into FrameMaker, things get all
> distorted and text is all over the place.
>
> Is anybody using the SVG option and if so, how well is it really
> working within FrameMaker? (As you can tell, I'm not having much luck).
>
> Wayne
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