FHMX - emf / wmf export results in jaggedy text

[John J Nosal]

Rob,

I would also like to a see a sample file. Please send it to [email]jnosal@macromedia.com[/email].

Regards,
John J. Nosal
Product Team Liaison - FreeHand
Macromedia Technical Support

[John J Nosal]

Rob,

Thanks for sending me a sample file that displayed the results that you are getting.

Here is the cause of the fonts looking bad when exported as EMF or even WMF in a specific configuration.

It looks like you have the option specified to "convert type to paths" in the setup options in the export dialog.

I found that when I convert the text it get ragged in both the EMF and the WMF.

Take a look at that setting and see wht it looks like for you.

Regards,
John J. Nosal
Product Team Liaison - FreeHand
Macromedia Technical Support

[Crockett webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I've uploaded a test file for all to see. PDF is showing FHMX site map w/ two settings (convert text
to paths ON/OFF) and example of FH10 export of same graphic w/ convert text
to paths OFF.

Pretty clear FHMX is doing something awefully peculiar w/ EMF / WMF exports.
I hope for this to be addressed as this is basically my sole operation w/
the program (exporting to EMF/WMF and importing into MS Office docs for
deliverable presentations).

For now its back to FH10...


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[Tom G.]

"Tom G." <tom@blarphat.com> wrote in
news:Xns93B3676D134C2tomblarpcom@65.57.83.209:

> John J Nosal <supportinfo@macromedia.com> wrote in
> news:20030709112154074-0500@forums.macromedia.com:
>

>> I found that when I convert the text it get ragged in both the EMF
>> and the WMF.

>
> John, FH MX is doing a lousy job of rendering any type of curve in EMF
> format. The samples I sent you were representative. I've sent you a
> new example with the original FH MX file included. If you look at the
> EMF export, you'll see that the tighter curves are very poorly
> rendered -- especially on the "W" looking object. There is no text in
> these samples at all. Converting to curves is often necessary for
> WMF/EMF because, AFAIK, neither format will embed a font.

Oh, and by the way, those original samples I sent were converted to
curves in Freehand and saved as FH MX prior to exporting to EMF / WMF. I
did not check the convert to curves box on export.

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Tom G.
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[Joerg Klemenz]

* "Radas" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

>
> But I do have Photoshop, and find if you export to PSD, then use
> Photoshop to export to WMF/PNG/whatever, it works fine.

Excuse me, but that is a silly advise. The whole point of WMF is to
have a *vector* format. You are saving the file as a bitmap and then
"convert" it to WMF. Does this make sense? I dont think so.



joerg