Hello Kapil
Although your workaround and fix will no doubt be highly appreciated by
unstructured users, they don't address the issue that we have seen with
FM 11 /structured /- that is, that printing a file to the Adobe PDF
printer (whether using Save As, Save as PDF, or Print) takes 10 times as
long as it used to. I am not exaggerating. We have a 550-page structured
book that we used to convert to PDF in FM9 in about 10 minutes or less.
Now with FM11 it takes 90 minutes or more.
I originally posted this issue on the Adobe forums - see
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4661181#4661181. But there was no
resolution. I guess if a FM developer says, "i have not seen that
happening a lot, except few cases ," that means have to live with it?
In the meantime, my recommendation to structured FM users is: If you
want to convert your docs to PDF, don't upgrade until Adobe do something
about these problems.
Roger Shuttleworth
London, Canada
On 27/09/2012 1:18 AM, Kapil Verma wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am from Adobe and wanted to give you some information about the
"Print to .PS" issue that has been reported in the forums recently. We
have looked into this issue and found the cause. Today, we wanted to
share it with you all along with a workaround solution in the interim.
Furthermore, *we are working on fixing this issue and expect to come
out with a fix soon*.
**
*What causes the issue*
This issue occurs when a user who is running FrameMaker11 in
_unstructured mode_ and tries to print a _book_, which was also
created in the unstructured mode. This issue is not present when
printing a Framemaker document, or when FrameMaker is running in
structured mode.
*Workaround*
The workaround is to switch to structured mode (you can do so by going
to Edit > Preferences > General and use the Product Interface dropdown
to select "Structured FrameMaker") and restart FrameMaker. This would
be a one-time action and afterwards, FrameMaker will launch in
Structured mode and you won't face this issue.
This being said, we do however realize that many of you are working in
the unstructured mode and wouldn't like to see the additional
structured menus and toolbars. To address this, we are providing a set
of workspace, menu and toolbar files (attached with this message).
With these files, a new workspace will be created in your FrameMaker
structured mode and this workspace will only have the unstructured
menus and toolbars. So, you can continue to work in a familiar
environment with only the unstructured features that you are used to
seeing. Please download the attached files and follow the steps below
to copy these files in the relevant folders.
_Steps to create the new "Unstructured" workspace when running in the
Structured mode_
1. Copy Unstructured.fws in
%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\11\WorkSpaces\Structured' folder
2. Copy menus-unstr.cfg in
%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\11\WorkSpaces\Structured\menus' folder
3. Copy fmtoolbar-unstr.xml in
%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\11\WorkSpaces\Structured\toolbars' folder
4. Launch FM in structured mode and switch to the 'unstructured'
workspace.
/* Note: this would not remove DITA and S1000D menus. If you want to
remove those menus as well, please write to me separately and I will
be happy to send you those instructions./
Hope that this workaround works as a solution in the short term, while
we work hard on fixing this issue for you. We hope to come out with a
fix soon to this problem.
Thanks,
Kapil Verma
Sr. Product Manager - FrameMaker | FrameMaker Publishing Server
O: +91-120-2444711 x 34505
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/category/framemaker
http://twitter.com/KapilVermaAdobe
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http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/
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