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From: mario@madarch.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko)
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Subject: Re: Using FrameMaker 2.0 with LaTeX
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Date: 5 Jun 90 17:28:33 GMT
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In article <3503@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>, jayem@quiche (Jean Marc MONTI) writes:
> So far we've been using FrameMaker 1.3 to make figures, storing them in
> postscript files, and using psfig to include them in LaTeX. Then, we run
> dvi2ps and we have a postscript file containing both images and text. We
> just received FrameMaker 2.0, and we have been unable to use the same
> technique and the figures don't get printed anymore. Would anybody out
> there know why is this ? Does v2.0 generate something that psfig can't
> understand ?? Where do things go wrong ?? Lastly, is there a fix ??

We have encountered exactly the same problem.  In 2.0, the folks who
wrote it were kind enough to ensure that no matter what you do, the
PostScript generated by Maker cannot be included in another document,
because it messes with global things.  It also carefully obliterates
part of the page before drawing anything.  When I called our support
number about this, at first I couldn't get them to understand what on
earth I was talking about ("Why not stop using LaTeX anyway?"), and
then they said it wouldn't be fixed.  If anyone from Frame is out
there, *please fix this*.  It's antisocial to produce PostScript that
cannot be imported.

Unfortunately, I can find no easy-to-apply fix.  First, you have to
get rid of the lines that look like this:
       manualfeed {true} {papersize} ifelse
       {manualpapersize} {false} ifelse
       {desperatepapersize} if
(These are in /FMDOCUMENT.)  Then, you have to get rid of some of the
lines that are at the beginning of your diagram.  These seem to vary
from diagram to diagram, so you'll have to experiment.  Here's an
example from one of my drawings:
	612 792 0 FMBEGINPAGE
	0 0 612 792 C
	0 0 612 792 R
	7 X
	0 K
	%V
	%72 746 540 756 R
	%V
	%72 32.67 540 42.67 R
	%V
	%72 72 540 720 R
	%V
	90 450 36 18 125.57 630 G
	1 H
	0 Z
	0 X
I have commented out some of the lines.

Best of luck.

Mario Wolczko

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