FrameMaker Tips

Subject: 
               Re: export frame figure as eps?
         Date: 
               30 Sep 1999 07:56:38 GMT
         From: 
               Burkhard Dietrich Burow 
 Organization: 
               Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Zeuthen, Germany
  Newsgroups: 
               comp.text.frame
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Burkhard Dietrich Burow  wrote:
: I have a figure in frame document
: which I would like to have in eps
: so that I can use it in a latex document.

: How can I do this?

Since posting, I've discovered a solution:

 - Make a copy of the *.doc.
   On each page delete everything but the anchored frame with the figure.
   This also seems to work for tables and anything else.
   [If 'clip'ping does not work in Latex or similar other problems,
    you might try changing the Master page such that there are no margins.]
 - Save the *.doc as *.pdf
   This is available in frame 5.5, but not frame 5.
   [After I discoverd the *.pdf route, someone informed me of
    fixfmps - filter to fix Framemaker documents so PSUtils work
              Part of Angus Duggan's  psutils package.
    I have not tried fixfmps, but for that someone
    the *.ps output by frame then often is usable.]
 - use acroread to print out each page separately as a *.ps
 - use ps2epsi to convert each *.ps to *.epsi

Inside LaTex, I have e.g.
 
\usepackage{epsfig}
 
\centerline{\psfig{figure=f1.eps,scale=0.8,clip}}
 
 

I still think nicest would be
Special -> Anchored Frame -> Print ... eps ... 

Better yet, allow *.eps output for any area in *.doc.

burkhard