Greetings everyone,
I've created a book in FrameMaker, consisting of about 25 Frame files. There is nothing extraordinary about the book, just chapters, mostly text, a ToC, an index, and some standard front matter. Using FM 8 on Win 7. The book is to be printed in a 6"x9" format. In the Frame template, I used 8.5 x 11 pages, then set the margins large enough, so that the text, headers, footers, etc. would all fit perfectly inside a 6.9 page, including the margins on the 6.9 page. I assumed that a print shop would be able to take such a PDF file and put it on press on any machine that print shop has. Now, the print shop, with which I have no direct contact, apparently says it can't use that, wants me to convert the book to 6.9 pages. I say "apparently", because this is a game of telephone, and I actually have no idea what the print shop actually said. Charming, eh? :) 1. Does my assumption, namely, that a print shop should be able to take the PDF I created and put it up on any reasonable press, make sense? (I ask, because I need to decide whether I should "fix" this on my nickel or theirs. If I'm making a reasonable assumption, then theirs; if not, then of course, mine.) 2. If I need to change the page size in FrameMaker and recreate the PDF, am I better off changing the template and importing it into the existing book files, or am I better off changing the template and then pasting the content into the template, one chapter at a time, resaving each file as I go? Or is there a third, better option? (It's a one-off project, no one is going to pay to automate anything, whatever is done, will be done manually.) Also, if I end up doing this, is there something special I need to know WRT Acrobat settings I would use in FrameMaker? Thank you kindly, Elchanan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131220/4712a87a/attachment.html>
