RE: fonts in imported graphic look bizarre

["Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com>]

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
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Polycom, Inc.
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