In article , jferrerp@dsy-srv3.cern.ch wrote: > Anyone knows what's the best way to export just a graphic made in > FrameMaker with the FrameMaker tools to then inport it in Word for Windows I don't know if this is the "best" way, but here's the only realible way that I know. [I assume you're using a PostScript printer -- if not, just take a screen shot and paste it in.] In Frame, place your graphic on its own page with no headers or footers. Then Print the single page containing the graphic to an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file. In Word, Insert File or Picture, and choose your EPS file. If you saved the EPS with a preview, you'll see the preview on the screen, otherwise you'll see a grey box. But in any case the EPS will print. "Saving as EPS" is platform dependent, and I can't speak for Windows. On my Mac, Frame insists on writing an EPS file that comprises the entire page, not just the portion that is used. To save a snippet of a Frame page in EPS, I must both (1) use a text editor to edit the bounding box saved in the EPS file, and (2) save with no preview, because the preview would cover the whole page, and would be rendered incorrect after I tighten the bounding box. To make an accurate bounding box, place all of your graphic elements within a frame having a border of None, then access Object Properties of that frame to determine its position and the dimensions (in points). Take the height of your page and subtract from it the Offset from Top of the frame, then subtract the Height of the frame. Add the Width of the frame to its Offset from Left to get the offset of its right edge. These steps are necessary to convert from Frame's coordinate system (position from upper left, and size) to that of PostScript (positiion from bottom left, and position of opposite corner). Now use a text editor to open the EPS file and mess with the bounding box. Find the %%BoundingBox: line early in the file. The four numbers that follow are the distances of the left, bottom, right and top, in points, from the PostScript origin at the bottom left corner of the page. The bounding box saved from Frame on my Mac is 0 0 612 792 for a USletter full page. Change these to the offset of the lower left corner of your frame (x, y) and the offset of your upper right corner (x, y). [In the unlikely event that you find a %%HighResBoundingBox, consult the Adobe Red Book and/or the PostScript FAQ: I don't want to complicate things further here.] Save your edited EPS file, then import it into its destination. If you want to avoid the BoundingBox editing, or to keep a preview, you could try an alternate approach of using Frame to scale your graphic up to the full page size, then importing that as EPS with a preview. You can then scale it back down in the importing application. This is a nuisance because you have to force the aspect ratio to fit the selected page size, then undo that step on import. It's also a nuisance because when first imported Word will want to position the graphic within Word's page margins, and it will spill over the sides of the page. And the preview, stored at 72 dpi, will be big and slow to render, even when scaled back down. Because of the difficulty of saving EPS from Frame, and because of the lack of Frame graphics import and export tools, I use Frame's drawing tools only for the simplest of things like rulings. For serious graphics work I use Adobe Illustrator, and I Import its EPS by reference into Frame. AI's bounding box is computed and stored correctly, so none of the messing around is necessary. I vote for Frame to cease investing in FrameMath and drawing tools -- tasks for which excellent tools are easily available -- and to concentrate on documents, books and typography. But I digress. C.