On 2013-Jun-03 11:55 AM, Roman Banks wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have a simple Visio drawing containing basic Visio shapes (e.g., a > rectangle with a green background). I inserted a PNG (an icon with a > transparent background) via Insert-->Picture-->From File and put it on > top of the rectangle. So far, everything looked perfect. However, when > I embedded the Visio drawing in Framemaker (without resizing), the > icon became fuzzy and distorted. When I opened the Visio from > Framemaker - everything looked fine again, but when I closed it, the > icon had a stroke ;-). I wasn't too concerned with that as I've seen > many times that Framemaker distorts images, but when converted to PDF, > they look OK again. However, it wasn't the case this time. > When I converted the FM file to PDF (File --> Save as PDF), the icon > itself looked OK, BUT it was surrounded by a white background! In the > Distiller settings, I deselected the "CMYK to RGB" option, and > generated the PDF again -- the white background disappeared, but the > icon looked fuzzy and distorted as in Framemaker. > Do you have any ideas what makes FM and Distiller distort the drawing, > and how to solve this problem? >
AFAIK, FM still does not support transparency, so that's why you get the white background. Not sure why the fuzziness, unless Visio is producing a low-res preview as in EPS files. (I have never used Visio.) HTH a bit, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130603/61421e8f/attachment.html>
