Hi, I use FM 2020, and I would never go back!
Regarding your font issue: Do you use the SetPrint utility? With this small plug-in you can set a default printer only for FrameMaker, e.g. Adobe PDF. This way nothing will change, when you create your PDF files. The file name extension of your PostScript files will always be ps and not prn. As FM 2020 has its own publishing engine, you do not need this plugin in FM 2020. Best regards Winfried -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+w.reng=carecom-solutions....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Wendy McGovern Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 5:25 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: [Framers] Does new FrameMaker actually split footnotes across pages? Hi, Framers! We have been using Frame 7.0 forever and it has always been stable and worked for us, so we never upgraded (especially after hearing complaints from this list about the interface, problems, etc. of subsequent versions). We do have font issues in creating PDFs with the latest Acrobat, where switching printer drivers (we print to Postscript and distill to PDF) can cause slight font differences. Most of the time it doesn't cause any problems, but there have been instances of some bumped text. I think we finally may switch to the latest Frame (will be using unstructured). I looked at the website demo and it looks like the basic product is the same; we just would have to get used to the different UI with its pods. But I couldn't believe they actually have fixed the footnote problem where the footnote bumps to the next page if it won't fit on the same page as its reference number. I'm still a little skeptical, though, whether the new version actually "splits" the footnote like Word does and puts part of the note on the next page or whether the new Frame just moves the whole note to be on the same page as the reference number, leaving a big ugly gap on the page. I'm also worried we'll have to go without IXGEN anymore, as I understand it only works with 32-bit and the new Frame is strictly 64-bit. I love our good ol' Frame, but am tired of worrying about the font changes in PDFing and having to manually wrangle footnotes. Can anyone give me any advice on how good the latest version is? Now that it's subscription only, will we be stuck having to upgrade as new versions come out, whether we want to or not? Wendy McGovern [Pennsylvania Bar Institute]<http://www.pbi.org> Wendy McGovern Publications Editor Pennsylvania Bar Institute 5080 Ritter Rd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 (E) wmcgov...@pbi.org<mailto:wmcgov...@pbi.org> (P) 717-620-6257 (P) 800-932-4637, ext. 6257 (F) 717-796-2348 www.pbi.org<http://www.pbi.org> _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
