RE: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs
I assume that the EPS files are being imported as EPS into FrameMaker, correct? FrameMaker does not modify the content of EPS imported into documents. It is passed directly to PostScript printers, which the Distiller acts as for purpose of creating PDF files. HOWEVER, when generating PostScript for the document at print time, FrameMaker must use generate a page location and scaling factor for the EPS. I suspect that somehow the scaling factor being used in the example you cite is something like 0.. Why is this happening? Perhaps you are putting a border on the imported EPS frame? I would need to test this out, but my best guess is that FrameMaker may be shrinking the scale factor from 1. to account for any border applied in FrameMaker itself to the EPS file's frame. - Dov -Original Message- From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Yosuke Ichikawa Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:53 PM To: framers@FrameUsers.com Subject: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs Hi, We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than 0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts, but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics uses 0.199600pt lines. PDFs of these individual graphics, created from Illustrator, do not have problems with Acrobat prefight, so it seems to be some sort of FM conversion problem. Why does this happen, and is there any way to prevent this on the FM side? If there is no way to fix this, we'd have to tell our illustrator to make the lines in the graphics slightly thicker. Windows XP, Illustrator 10, FM 7.1, Acrobat 6. By the way, is there no way to check the whole list archives any more? I thought I'd search the archives first, but the one I found at the frameusers site was just for the recent few months. TIA, Yosuke ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs
I assume that the EPS files are being imported as EPS into FrameMaker, correct? FrameMaker does not modify the content of EPS imported into documents. It is passed directly to PostScript printers, which the Distiller acts as for purpose of creating PDF files. HOWEVER, when generating PostScript for the document at print time, FrameMaker must use generate a page location and scaling factor for the EPS. I suspect that somehow the scaling factor being used in the example you cite is something like 0.. Why is this happening? Perhaps you are putting a border on the imported EPS frame? I would need to test this out, but my best guess is that FrameMaker may be "shrinking" the scale factor from 1. to account for any border applied in FrameMaker itself to the EPS file's frame. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Yosuke Ichikawa > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:53 PM > To: framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing > in FMgenerated PDFs > > Hi, > > We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines > thinner than > 0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly > 0.2 pts, but when we import these graphics in FM and check > the PDFs created from FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics > uses "0.199600pt" lines. > > PDFs of these individual graphics, created from Illustrator, > do not have problems with Acrobat prefight, so it seems to be > some sort of FM conversion problem. > > Why does this happen, and is there any way to prevent this on > the FM side? If there is no way to fix this, we'd have to > tell our illustrator to make the lines in the graphics > slightly thicker. > > Windows XP, Illustrator 10, FM 7.1, Acrobat 6. > > By the way, is there no way to check the whole list archives > any more? I thought I'd search the archives first, but the > one I found at the frameusers site was just for the recent few months. > > TIA, > Yosuke
Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs
> -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Reng, Winfried > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:19 AM > To: framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: AW: Line width in inported graphics slightly > diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs > ... > > When I check the font size in my PDF files there?s also often > a difference. E.g. the font size in FrameMaker is 10 pt, and > Acrobat says 9.96 pt. (Other text in Acrobat has exactly the > same font size as in FrameMaker.) 4 % would be a rather large > rounding error. > I don?t know whether these differences in line width and font > size have the same cause. > > Best regards > > Winfried The TEXT issue is indeed different. FrameMaker does not generate its own PostScript for text. It goes through Windows GDI where the coordinate system is based on device resolution, not "points." As such, rounding errors can and will occur, not in FrameMaker and not in the PostScript driver, but in Windows GDI. Note that you will see the same thing. Nothing will resolve this for FrameMaker unless it generated its own PostScript or PDF directly!
