I've installed the trial version of FrameMaker 8 and am having what I consider to be a major display problem. My FM doc no longer looks the same on screen as in PDF. There is a change in behavior in the interaction between justification and automatic letter spacing settings. The two settings have become mutually exclusive, where they used to work concurrently. Before I file a bug report, or try a reinstallation, is anyone else seeing this, or am I the only one?
In all instances, I have set the printer from within FrameMaker to Adobe PDF before opening the documents, and justification is turned on for the paragraph format. Changing the DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics= setting does not help. Here are the results of test settings: ============A================ DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=Off Automatic Letter Spacing is checked 1. Some justified lines don't reach the right-hand column edge. 2. Automatic letter spacing is applied. COMMENT: It turns out that the lines in the paragraph to which FrameMaker has applied auto letter spacing are the same lines that do not reach the right-hand column edge! ============B================ DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=Off Automatic Letter Spacing is unchecked 1. Justified lines all reach right-hand column edge. 2. No automatic letter spacing is applied. ============C================ DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On Automatic Letter Spacing is checked **These are the settings I normally use.** 1. Few justified lines reach right-hand column edge. 2. Automatic letter spacing is applied. ============D================ DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On Automatic Letter Spacing is unchecked 1. Justified lines all reach right-hand column edge. 2. No automatic letter spacing is applied. I miss having my document look the same in FM as it does in PDF! Mike Wickham
