Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-12 Thread Alan Litchfield
I have done that many times. The vectors and splines created are sometimes a bit poorly connected but in general, they follow the correct structure for postscript output. I have also used this approach on a number of projects to fix MS Word drawings. That is those that have been made using Wor

Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
I hope I never have to use it, but that's a very clever trick. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Many thanks to Heiko Haida for the solution here: generate PDFs of the > graphics, which are (somewhat amazingly) then completely editable in > Illustrator. ___

RE: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-12 Thread Craig Ede
@gmail.com Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:53:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics To: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com They'll work fine in Photoshop too, if you want to go that route -- I prefer it for charts, screen shots and so

RE: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:08 -0500 11/3/14, Craig Ede wrote: >But you wouldn't be editing screen shots, would you? No - in this instance is it most likely to be line art originated in FrameMaker's graphics editor that need to be improved. >For extracting "whole" graphics like those, it might be better to do a save

Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:53 -0400 11/3/14, Art Campbell wrote: >They'll work fine in Photoshop too, if you want to go that route -- I prefer >it for charts, screen shots and so on. I guess, although I don't use Photoshop. > "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a > redheaded g

Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Art Campbell
They'll work fine in Photoshop too, if you want to go that route -- I prefer it for charts, screen shots and so on. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson

Re: Reworking legacy FrameMaker graphics

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
Many thanks to Heiko Haida for the solution here: generate PDFs of the graphics, which are (somewhat amazingly) then completely editable in Illustrator. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list mess