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Facet Formats for Graphics
When you copy a graphic into a FrameMaker document, the FrameMaker document stores the graphic
data in one or more facets. Each facet contains data in a specific graphic format. FrameMaker products use
facets to display and print graphics.
In UNIX versions of FrameMaker products, you can associate a graphic application with a FrameMaker
product through the FrameMaker API or through the FrameServer interface. You can set this up so that
the graphics created and modified in the graphic application can be imported directly into a FrameMaker
document. The graphic application becomes a graphic inset editor. Graphic inset editors write graphic data
to graphic insets, which can be read by FrameMaker products.
For more information on setting up graphic inset editors, see the FDK Programmer's Guide and the online
manual, Using FrameServer with Applications and Insets. Both manuals are provided with the UNIX version
of the Frame Developer's Kit.
The first part of this appendix describes the general format for a facet in a MIF file. The second part of this
appendix explains the graphic inset format.
If you are using the API to implement the graphic inset editor, the syntax described in this appendix applies
only to external graphic insets. For information on specifying facet names, data types, and data for internal
graphic insets, see the FDK Programmer's Guide.
Facets for imported graphics
A graphic imported by copying into a FrameMaker document contains one or more facets. Each facet
describes the imported graphic in a specific graphic format. All imported graphics copied into a document
contain one or more facets used to display and print the file.
FrameMaker products might not use the same facet for displaying and printing a graphic. For example, the
Macintosh version of a FrameMaker product might use a QuickDraw PICT facet for displaying the graphic
and an EPSI facet for printing the graphic.
When printing an imported graphic, FrameMaker products select one of the following facets (in order of
preference):
EPSI (Encapsulated PostScript)
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Native platform facet (QuickDraw PICT, WMF)
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FrameVector
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TIFF
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FrameImage and other bitmap facets
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When displaying an imported graphic, FrameMaker products select one of the following facets (in order
of preference):
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