I would recommend that you save your graphics as .EPS instead of .AI. Unless I've overlooked a recent change, FrameMaker doesn't directly support embedding of .AI files. They do sometimes work, though. Here's an _old_ explanation from Dov Isaacs of Adobe:
"First of all, FrameMaker never really officially and fully supported import of Adobe Illustrator .AI files. Officially, FrameMaker only fully supports import of .EPS and .PDF files saved from Adobe Illustrator. "Secondly, until several years ago, the .AI file format used by Illustrator was almost identical to the .EPS format. In those cases, if one attempted to import on of those .AI files, it often "worked" because internally, despite not having a .EPS suffix, it looked like an EPS file. The current (i.e., Illustrator 9 or 10) .AI format likewise can be imported into FrameMaker if and only if the .AI file was saved with the option to make the file PDF-compatible. (Contrary to an unfortunate public perception, Illustrator's native file format is NOT PDF. Illustrator stores its formatting information in a private data area within what looks like a PDF file which can optionally have all of Illustrator's private data repeated as genuine PDF data for display and print in Acrobat.) In this case, FrameMaker is successful in importing an Illustrator file because it has PDF information as well. "The safest and most highly recommended method of Illustrator content import into FrameMaker continues to be EPS." Read Dov's full message text here: http://www.freeframers.org/archive/02/msg01600.html Mike Wickham On 1/14/2014 8:13 AM, Chris Coggins wrote: > > Can someone explain how to fix the distortion that is occurring in > graphic in the pdf output? > > I embedded the .ai file into the frame page and tried the "save as > pdf" (high quality) and "print to pdf" (standard) methods of output, > but the distortion occurs on both. I even tried creating a new frame > file in case there was something hidden in the original file I was using.
