Thanks, Lin.

I guess my only reason for making it look good in FrameMaker would be the 
"WYSIWYG" factor. :)

This is just for a company logo that is being updated, so not critical per se, 
I suppose. The graphics artist provided an EPS file - his first PNG output was 
anti-aliased (which he can change too, I suppose), so had fuzzy color 
transitions along color edges (in a logo).

Z

From: Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 12:46 PM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Having problems with importing an EPS file into FrameMaker ...

As I recall, Frame doesn't display EPS natively. Instead, it uses a TIF image 
which, as you noticed, is pretty horrible. When you print to PDF, however, 
it'll look just fine. Unless there's some overriding reason you need it to be 
lovely in Frame, I wouldn't worry about it. If there is, try converting to SVG, 
which Frame handles just fine and is also a vector format.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain 
(syed.hos...@aeris.net<mailto:syed.hos...@aeris.net>) 
<syed.hos...@aeris.net<mailto:syed.hos...@aeris.net>> wrote:
Hi, all.

I am trying to import a graphic - with only four colors in it - (it is in EPS 
format) and am having some bizarre difficulties. When I view the EPS file on my 
Windows system using PS_view, it looks perfectly fine - even when zoomed in.

However, for some reason, the file comes into FrameMaker in a tiny 103 x 50 
resolution (I didn't see any option to rasterize it at a larger resolution or 
dpi?) and the result when zoomed up a bit, is horrible. The rasterized 
resampling of the few colors in the graphic results in an unusably bad quality 
image.

If I externally rasterize the EPS into TIF using Photoshop set to NO anti-alias 
and with a resolution of 1800 dpi (I know this is a bit overkill, but I am 
trying to minimize jaggies along the curves of the graphic), it works! But the 
resulting TIF file is over 25 Megabytes and I would like to avoid that - should 
I try LZW compression when saving perhaps?

Also, I am using an older version of Photoshop (CS3) for this work, and after I 
rasterize into Photoshop at 1800, I cannot seem to find the option to save the 
file in PNG format. So, am using TIF.

Is there something about/in the EPS file to begin with, such that FrameMaker 
seems to want to rasterize it into a 103 x 50 image? Is there a way to change 
that "option"?

Z

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