Rebecca, I appreciate your taking the time to answer. However, Shlomo suggested that this is a bug in FrameMaker and his workaround (print to a PostScript file and distill that) worked like a charm.
The bug manifests itself when you have the combination of shaded cells, PDF tagging is turned on in PDF setup, and you save as PDF. I need the shading and tagging, so I used the workaround. I assume that turning off tagging or unshading would work. Thanks, Shlomo. Thanks, Rebecca. Thanks, Framers. -----Original Message----- From: rebecca officer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 3:00 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Jim Light Subject: Re: Vanishing Table Heading Cells Could be the good old graphic print quality problem that causes random text drop-out in PDFs. In Windows, open Properties for the Distiller / Adobe PDF printer driver. On the general tab, click Printing Preferences, then Advanced. Change Graphic Print Quality to 300 dpi. Click OK till you're back at the Properties dialog. Then go to the Advanced tab. Click Printing Defaults, then Advanced. Change that one to 300 dpi too. If 300 dpi fixes the problem, try 600 dpi. That works for most people (but not us). The setting is something to do with the granularity of text placement, nothing to do with the dpi for graphics. Cheers, Rebecca >>> "Jim Light" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/04/06 10:40:42 >>> The text is fine in FM. The properties of the text in the PDF are the same for the invisible text as for the visible text. (!!!) I tried re-importing table definitions, but that didn't help. I copied the text to a new template and that didn't help. I made a copy of a good table and copied the body rows into it. (These tables have the same heading rows, so I can use a good one and just change the body rows). This worked twice and then it didn't work. About half of my table collection has this weird problem. At this point I am copying a good one and using it to recreate a bad one over and over until they are all OK. What on Earth is going on??? Jim -----Original Message----- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:28 PM To: Jim Light; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: (no subject) Jim Light wrote: > I have a problem that is making me crazy. There are a few > seemingly-random table heading cells whose text does not show > up in the PDF. Just to be clear: the text is fine in FM, it just disappears in the PDF? > * I tried using the text editing tool in Acrobat, but the text I > type in is invisible. With the TouchUp Text Tool selected, click in or select the "invisible" text, right-click, and select Properties. Take a look at the info on the Text tab, especially the font and fill. See if that gives you any hints. <shrug />Can it wait until Monday? It's almost beer-thirty here. ;-) Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40al liedtelesyn.co.nz Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
