RE: FrameMaker Graphics

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

The particular job where I had to do this, did not have Acrobat, other Adobe
products, or decent graphics programs.  At least, not for my use.  My guess,
is that the document was created by someone that only left the pdf as the
document deliverable.  The documentation that I had to use as a base for my
documents was old and many authors had been laid-off and their systems
re-formatted.  I don't remember all of the details, but I think that this
was a case where we needed old documents in an editable format and I wound
up creating new documents to replace old ones when there was a new process.
There was some sort of EPS issue too.

Lauren


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:43 AM
> To: lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: FrameMaker Graphics
> 
> There is no reason (or justification) for using a screenshot of
> a PDF page to deal with a missing graphics source file as long
> as you have Acrobat.  From the PDF of the document, export
> just the page containing the graphic, then use Acrobat to
> crop that page to show just the figure. Then save that
> cropped page, either as a PDF (if you're using FrameMaker or
> some other app that can handle PDFs as graphic objects) or
> as an EPS (if you're using MS Word or other app that can't
> handle PDFs as graphics. You might even be able to edit the
> exported graphic in Illustrator if the figure originated in a
> vector graphics tool and if all the planets are aligned.
> 
> -Fred Ridder
> 
> 
> >From: "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>
> >To: "'Al Geist'" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>,"'Ami WRIGHT'" 
> ><ami -at- ziplink -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> >Subject: RE: FrameMaker Graphics
> >Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:52:05 -0700
> >
> > > Behalf Of Al Geist
> > >
> > > Never, ever get rid of your originals, unless you want big
> > > headaches down
> > > the road. Keep them on a CD or DVD, but never keep them in
> > > the trash can.
> >
> >I've had a few contracts where the original graphics were gone, the
> >applications were unavailable (to me at least) for new 
> screenshots, and all
> >I had was an old document, sometimes just a pdf, with the graphics.  
> >Suffice
> >it to say, that image quality from taking a screen shot of a 
> pdf is not
> >quite as clear as that from an original graphic.
> >
> >Personally, I save everything and try to keep descriptive (but short)
> >filenames and folder names.  I sometimes also prepare a 
> document with a
> >folder contents list and store it in the root project 
> folder.  It's up to
> >the client to archive this properly, but my conscience is 
> clean about what 
> >I
> >leave behind.
> >
> >Lauren
> 
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