Thanks to all who responded. Printing to Adobe PDF and then distilling preserved xrefs and color.
Long-term this does not solve my problem. I want to prepare a book for Kindle, which requires dynamic pages and PDF is not a dynamic format. Kindle deprecates PDF because the conversion from PDF to Kindle doesn't retain all formatting features. Amazon recommends Word as source. The FM6-to-Word save-as feature completely loses xrefs and font information. They become, for example, "xrefparatextefault ? Font" with the xref text gone. And pictures are lost completely. The conversion from FM to Word may work better in later releases of FM, but the reason I don't buy a newer version is this is the only book I have in FrameMaker. Even if this all worked, the point may still be moot. My book has upwards of 20 xrefs per page, and I don't believe Kindle books even support cross-references (other than possibly table of contents). At 10:33 AM, Thursday, 12/19/2013, Michael Wiesenberg wrote: >Hello, I used to be a framers list member a long >time ago. (You can tell how long by the version of FM I'm running.) > >I'm trying to convert FM6 files to PDFs and >retain xrefs. I use save-as-PDF. Unfortunately, >this loses the color in the illustrations. (They >become black-and-white.) I can see color in the >PDFs by using print-to and specifying the >printer as Adobe PDF, but this loses the xrefs. >Can anyone tell me how to generate xrefs in the PDFs and also preserve color? > >(Buying the latest version of FrameMaker is not an option for me.) > >Thanks. > >q
