Hi, Dov. Please pardon my rant below ... not your personal fault at all! But, Adobe does seriously need to fix PDF generation from FrameMaker, IMHO.
Dov wrote: > FrameMaker (exceptionally unfortunately) unlike InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop does NOT have the ability to directly export PDF using the Adobe PDF Library. [rant] Is this still true for FrameMaker 9? (I have not checked this yet for the trial version that I install a few days onto a Windows 7 system here). If still true, *when* should we expect it to happen? Frankly, the inability to easily and reliably generate PDF from FrameMaker is something that has been present far too long! And this issue needed to be addressed *way* sooner than the fancy front-end that has been released in FrameMaker 9. It is one of my pet peeves with FrameMaker although I love the *program* otherwise (been using it - off and on - since 1988 on a Sun 3/50)! When I went back to using FrameMaker some years back, *every* time I have done a FrameMaker version upgrade (from 6.0 to my current 8.0 - every version!), I have had to reset the parameters and options I use for the PDF generation process with Acrobat (also have all recent versions). For the *same* set of books - and the settings are different for each book! This last time, I had to turn Paragraph Tags on for one large document for the process to work with FrameMaker 8 - the last time, I had to turn it off for FM 7.2 for the very same document. To avoid FrameMaker crashes or correctly generate the PDF output (without missing tables or duplicated pages containing long tables)! I suspect that I will have to do it again with FrameMaker 9 when I get there. :( And, even now, with FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 9, when I generate a PDF from one of my documents, it still annoys me that I have to open the PDF output in Acrobat and set properties that I *should* be able to feed into it from FrameMaker. Better integration of FrameMaker and Acrobat and/or far more control of the PDF generation from FrameMaker would be a real blessing! Since I do relatively frequent PDF generation (it is for specifications that tend to change relatively often, and I send out review copies in PDF format), this just adds delays and occasional "oops, forgot to set the property" moments! [/rant] So ... the real QUESTION: when do you/Adobe expect the Adobe FrameMaker software developers to learn how to use the Acrobat SDK, libraries, etc., and "do it right"? Please feel free to pass the question on to whoever is in charge of FrameMaker development! Z