Hi Ken There're certainly a lot of better options than your flow!
Working from PDFs, my I'm-in-a-hurry flow would be: 1. Open PDF at 100% 2. Open SnagIt. 3. Set snagit to automatically save files as PNGs with incrementing numbers in filenames. 4. Set snagit to capture a Region, which lets you drag the mouse to select exactly what you want. 5. Take the snapshots for the whole book. It takes a few seconds to capture each - definitely under 10 seconds, probably well under once you're on a roll. 6. Open the FM document. 7. At each point where I wanted a screen snapshot, use File > Import to import it at 96 dpi. That automatically inserts it in an anchored frame, centered, at the size it was in the original PDF. Only takes a couple of seconds per file. If you can't live with centred figures, I'm pretty sure there was a plugin that let control that across a document. If your manuals are being printed, 96dpi isn't good enough so you may need to experiment. But I'll bet your workmate's flow gets the content in at screen resolution. Cheers Rebecca >>> Ken Poshedly <poshe...@bellsouth.net> 03/23/12 11:02 AM >>> First, thanks to all who have written to me both on-list and off-list. It’s certainly good to have a support group of those likewise addicted to this software. (Maybe at an FM conference we can go around the room for introductions like at an AA meeting, “I’m Ken and I’m a FrameMaker user.”) Second, I’m still checking possible solutions to see if I cold convince my coworker to add graphics to FM docs correctly, but it seems like a lost cause because he simply doesn’t see the need to do anything other than copy and paste. For new images, he simply opens the folder with photos taken of a new machine, copies a photo and directly pastes it into an anchored frame in his FM document. He’s asked me to come up with a better way, but I already know that to him, only speed counts, and he takes literally no longer than 20 seconds or so to do it his way: * Have pdf document open and anchored frame in FM document already in place. * Screen-shot the art (using PrintScreen32 which allows cropping before doing the capture). * Paste it into anchored frame and size it as-needed. My clumsy, more complicated, admittedly longer but correct method (using an existing pdf file with required images) is to: * Have pdf document open and anchored frame in FM document already in place. * Extract single page with a required image from a multi-page pdf file. * Open the pdf page (or photo) in art software and crop away unneeded material to leave only the image. * Assign an art control number (from our existing acn excel file). * Save the cropped pdf in the existing art control number file folder. * Import the saved PDF image from the ACN folder into anchored frame in FrameMaker and re-size it as-needed * Type the art control number inside a text box and place it inside the lower right corner of the anchored frame. Third, thanks to Shlomo Perets for his suggestion for me to uncheck the box for “Generate Tagged PDF” as a fix to see if I could properly generate a pdf file on Wednesday afternoon. It worked. (Specifically, I unchecked the box for “Generate Acrobat Data”.) -- Ken in Atlanta ________________________________ From: Shlomo Perets <shlo...@microtype.com> To: Ken Poshedly <poshe...@bellsouth.net> Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thu, March 22, 2012 6:49:03 AM Subject: Re: best use of graphics in FM Ken, You wrote: >First, I very much appreciate the various on-list and off-list replies. >I'll try a few things myself this evening after getting home (61 miles >each way) regarding the graphics to see what I can do as a speed test. > >Second, I just did some minor edits to a series of FM files created by my >coworker and tried to create a pdf of the book. And yep, a big glitch >occurred right near th e beginning during distilling. Here's the text from >the log file created by distiller: > >%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% >%%[Page: 1]%% >%%[Page: 2]%% >%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: StOBJ >--nostringval-- ]%% > >Stack: >/StOBJ >{/StOBJ} >/Obj >-dict- > > >%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% >%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% > >***************** > >Notice that distiller gave up the ghost at or after page 2 of the file >during the book printing which should have resulted in a 254-page manual. >I've done a visual check of pages 2 and 3 (the copyright page would be pdf >page 2 and page 1 of the comprehensive TOC would be pdf page 3) and either >there's nothing obviously wrong or I'm blind. > >Could someone explain the cryptography from the log file, specifically >line 4 (Error: typecheck . . .) and what follows it? The Distiller error is related to having Tagged PDF turned on in FrameMaker. Turn off "Generate Tagged PDF" (Format > Document > PDF Setup, Tags tab, of from within your Save as PDF / Print dialog box), then try converting to PDF again. Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/TCS training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. 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