Wouldn't it make sense that an Encapsulated PostScript element (EPS file) would
not print to a non-postscript printer (except the part of it that is
non-PostScript, i.e. the preview)?
The benefits of producing output to a PDF from FM and then printing to your
printer has been discussed many
Hi, Craig.
Yup, I agree with your observation, and do understand the oft-stated
requirement to use PDF output and then print from it. :)
It is just that I was not expecting the poor quality when I printed directly
from FrameMaker to the printer I had access to at the time (I was at home) to
A bit of a final post here for closure, and to answer Mike comments below.
1. The original EPS was indeed vector, not bitmap.
2. Agreed that the 1800 dpi PNG file was large.
a. Reducing it to 300 dpi made it much smaller.
b. Better yet: doing NO anti-aliasing for the PNG
FrameMaker doesn't render EPS on screen, it just blows up the
thumbnail bitmap, if there is one. If there's not, you see a gray box.
Size the box to the appropriate dimensions, save as PDF, and it should
look fine.
Or are you saying it's bad in the PDF?
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Syed
Converting EPS to some other format is unnecessary and can degrade the
image. You get used to FrameMaker not previewing it.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(syed.hos...@aeris.net) syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote:
] I guess my only reason for making it look good in FrameMaker would
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
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
Your recollection is absolutely correct regarding FrameMaker only displaying a
low-res raster image for EPS graphics. And that's only if the EPS file actually
contains the TIFF preview--many EPS files don't include the preview image
because it is basically a waste, and in those cases you only
As you have CS3, open the EPS in Illustrator and use the File Export option
to save it as a PNG.
Our web guy also says that in Photoshop you can use File Save for Web... then
use the PNG-24 option.
Alison
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Thanks! I have not checked the actual PDF output yet, so I will verify that it
looks okay when outputted there ...
(Whine: sorta makes the concept of WYSIWYG a bit less nice - the quality of the
image on the screen is cringe-worthy).
Z
Robert Lauriston said:
FrameMaker doesn't render EPS on
Thanks, Alison. I will try the second option you mentioned, since I only have
Photoshop CS3, not the full Creative Suite. A good-quality PNG will be
sufficient for my purpose - this is for an updated company logo that now need
to be changed in my older FM documents.
Z
From: Craig, Alison
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
Thanks, Fred.
I will see if I can save the EPS into a PDF format - of the right size, I
guess? - so that I can import it into FrameMaker.
PNG would also be fine for my purpose, since it is a company logo that needs to
be changed in my older documents. So, I will also try Alison's advice.
Z
If your EPS graphic is a vector drawing, I would not follow Alison's
suggestion to save as a PNG bitmap. That will greatly degrade the
drawing by rasterizing it. EPS handles vectors perfectly, resizing them
without degradation. Of course, they still look awful inside
FrameMaker-- because FM
Thanks, Mike.
I think that Alison was just responding to my request to understand how to save
as a PNG from Photoshop. :)
FWIW, this is just a simple 4 color corporate logo, so I am not too worried
about using PNG format. As long as it shows cleanly in the output PDF of my
documents (and
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