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Subject: RE: fonts in imported graphic look bizarre
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:39:48 -0400

No, the proper advice is don't use JPEG for anything except photos.
Screen shots have basically the same characteristics as line art (lots of
hard edges and other abrupt transitions between colors), and these
characteristics are a vey poor match with the JPEG processing
algorithm, which was specifically designed for photographs and
other kinds of continuous tone images.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ


From: "Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com>
To: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>,"Fiona Krycek" <fiona -dot- krycek -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: RE: fonts in imported graphic look bizarre
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:52:47 -0400

As I mentioned to Fiona offline, check the Adobe website for recent patches. As for Visio EMF, that was the only way I could get my graphics to work before I discovered the patches. I guess it depends...

Richard is right about JPEG. Don't use it except for photos and maybe screen shots.

Tom Johnson
Technical Writer
tjohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com

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Subject: RE: fonts in imported graphic look bizarre


Fiona Krycek wrote:

> I created some graphics in Visio. These graphics include some
> text (in Arial, size 8 -- in other words, nothing funky). I
> saved the .vsd drawings as .emf ("enhanced metafiles") files.

There was a thread just last week on how to get Visio drawings into FM,
so check the archives if you want lots on info and opinions on this
subject.

Here's my short version: Visio's EMF export sucks, so don't use it. And
for God's sake, don't use JPEG -- that's a raster format, and a lossy
one to boot, suitable only for photos. Visio's WMFs (Windows Metafiles)
are pretty decent, if you don't care about cross-platform portability.

But the best and easiest choice, IMO: Create PDFs of the drawings and
import those into FM. They work beautifully.

HTH!
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111

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