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Try It!: Adobe Illustrator Integration
Adobe Technical Communication Suite Reviewer's Guide
July 10, 2012
Let's look at a great example of cross-application integration in the Adobe
Technical Communication Suite. You can import native Photoshop and Illustrator
graphics directly into Adobe FrameMaker. You can also open these files for editing
directly from FrameMaker. There is no need to save to another file format, and
these images are properly converted when publishing to online output formats and
multiple devices. Let's take a look at how this works.
Here we have an eyeglass catalog, with several images of the products. First, we're
going to import an Adobe Photoshop file into this document. Adobe Photoshop is
not included in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4, but you can
purchase Photoshop separately or as a component of another Adobe software
suite.
I'm going to select the frame where we will import the image.
Now I can choose File>Import and select the Adobe Photoshop file.
I will import the file by reference. When you import a file by reference,
FrameMaker will automatically update the document if the original file changes.
This makes it very easy to maintain and update graphics in your FrameMaker
documents.
I will tell FrameMaker to fit the graphic in the selected frame.
Now I've imported an Adobe Photoshop image into my FrameMaker document. I
would like to show you that if I right-click on the image, FrameMaker gives me a
menu option to edit the image in Adobe Photoshop.
Now let's import an Adobe Illustrator file. I'm going to insert a Illustrator file here.
I choose File>Import, and navigate to the Illustrator file.
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