In the really old days, it was common to print FM files to PostScript
files using a PostScript printer driver provided or specified by the
print vendor.
PDF has changed how print vendors see the world, now. Instead of
having to learn zillions of quirky and not-so-quirky applications,
they just need to know PDF well.
There's more speculation on what could possibly happen regarding a
marriage of ID and FM, than the tabloids have on <insert name your
favorite/least favorite celebrity couple>.
At 1:55 PM -0500 1/10/06, John Sgammato wrote:
Long ago there was a product called FrameReader that enabled the user to
view but not edit .fm files. It was very inexpensive, in the $29.95
area.
I remember a printer I worked with in Boston bought it so they could
more easily work with my files.
These days I have no trouble with sending a PDF to the printer. I send
covers and an installation poster as Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator
files, but FrameMaker files still have to go as PDF. It is another step
to my process, but not an onerous one.
In my experience, if there is an issue that would cause a printer to
want to tweak my files, there is probably an underlying problem that I
want to know about. For example, if the font is a tiny bit different,
but different enough to cause a problem in one place that the printer
wants to tweak, then it might also cause a problem somewhere else that
we won't see until too late.
I wonder if a future version of FrameMaker will merge with InDesign?
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Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
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