, 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 on.
Art Campbell
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
srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk wrote:
Many thanks to Heiko Haida for the solution here: generate PDFs of the
graphics, which are (somewhat amazingly) then completely editable in
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
I am assuming that artwork created with FrameMaker's internal graphics editor
is a closed book, i.e. cannot be extracted and reworked in an external
application. If anyone knows differently, or has been through this sort of
exercise, I'd be grateful to hear about it.
My primitive tests so far
Many thanks to Heiko Haida for the solution here: generate PDFs of the
graphics, which are (somewhat amazingly) then completely editable in
Illustrator.
--
Steve
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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
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 girl.
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 saveAs
