High quality images

2007-01-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Psst. A dirty little not-so-secret. FrameMaker does NOT support "native .AI files." What it does support are Adobe Illustrator files saved with the PDF-compatibility option. When you import such files, FrameMaker's import filter ignores the private Illustrator data in such files and treats them

FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
To be fair, I would not say that "FM has always had issues with OLE" but rather that OLE has always required "two to tango" and to tango to the same music at that! Adobe's use of OLE in FrameMaker is actually fairly stable. On the other hand, some Microsoft applications, notably Visio as a

FM 7.1 Compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
PS: I would strongly concur about any migrations from Windows 2000 or especially Windows XP to Vista. Unless you have a brand new system with tons of memory, dual cores, high speed graphics card, and plenty of extra disk space, use of Vista to support typical FrameMaker and associated support

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
Message- From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:45 PM To: Dov Isaacs; 'Framers List' Subject: RE: High quality images Dov, one clarification/question regarding your advice for screen shots... In my commercial printing experience, I found TIFF

RE: High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
) Pasting of screen captures into a page layout program is not reliable, disciplined workflow. Such assets should be kept separate as a file. - Dov -Original Message- From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 3:08 PM To: Dov Isaacs; 'Framers

High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
what options did you use to save the file? - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Jon Harvey [mailto:JHarvey at cambridgesoft.com] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:03 AM > To: Dov Isaacs; Stuart Rogers; Clara Hall > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject

High quality images

2007-01-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
nal Message- > From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:matt at grafixtraining.com] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:45 PM > To: Dov Isaacs; 'Framers List' > Subject: RE: High quality images > > Dov, one clarification/question regarding your advice for > screen shots... >

RE: High quality images

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
the resultant EPS file into FM. This procedure is a bit time consuming and I was wondering if anyone has another way, or knows of a script which might be able to do a comparable task. The procedure you describe is advocated by Dov Isaacs of Adobe, and his instructions also include selecting

RE: Weird Frame to PDF problem

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
In fact, FrameMaker treats a network drive no differently than a local drive. It doesn't and shouldn't need to do anything special when opening, reading, writing, or closing a file stored on a drive that isn't local to the actual execution of FrameMaker. For better or worse, it relies on the

RE: High quality images

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
I must strongly disagree with ANY advice to resample screen shots at any stage of the workflow prior to the RIP. Although this might not be intuitive, upsampling a screen shot in Photoshop (or name whatever tool you like) prior to importing or placing into FrameMaker (or name your favorite layout

High quality images

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
ed. (Distiller passes this key along from PostScript or > > EPS in a PostScript stream into the equivalent PDF image key!) > > 3. Import the resultant EPS file into FM. > > This procedure is a bit time consuming and I was wondering if anyone > > has another way, or knows

Weird Frame to PDF problem

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
In fact, FrameMaker treats a "network drive" no differently than a local drive. It doesn't and shouldn't need to do anything special when opening, reading, writing, or closing a file stored on a drive that isn't local to the actual execution of FrameMaker. For better or worse, it relies on the

High quality images

2007-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
I must strongly disagree with ANY advice to resample screen shots at any stage of the workflow prior to the RIP. Although this might not be intuitive, upsampling a screen shot in Photoshop (or name whatever tool you like) prior to importing or placing into FrameMaker (or name your favorite layout

FYI: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp

2007-01-16 Thread Dov Isaacs
-Original Message- From: Adobe Systems Incorporated Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:04 PM Subject: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp ( BW)(CA-ADOBE-SYSTEMS)(ADBE) Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp Adobe RoboHelp 6 Eases Creation, Management and Publishing of

RE: PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
You could/should be a bit more specific about what you mean by Adobe fixing up the RTF to FM filter. If you are finding bugs, by all means officially report them! You should be aware that many of the RTF to anything else conversion issues do relate to inconsistencies between how Microsoft itself

PDF to framemaker

2007-01-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
You could/should be a bit more specific about what you mean by Adobe "fixing up the RTF to FM filter." If you are finding bugs, by all means officially report them! You should be aware that many of the "RTF to anything else" conversion issues do relate to inconsistencies between how Microsoft

FYI: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp

2007-01-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: Adobe Systems Incorporated > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:04 PM > Subject: Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp > > ( BW)(CA-ADOBE-SYSTEMS)(ADBE) Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp > > Adobe RoboHelp 6 Eases Creation, Management and

RE: PDF to framemaker

2007-01-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
(1) There are a lot of people within Adobe who don't know what Dreamweaver or Contribute are either! (2) Actually, there is NOT much demand for a PDF to FrameMaker or even a PDF to InDesign converter at least as expressed directly to Adobe. Most users of these programs understand the

PDF to framemaker

2007-01-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
(1) There are "a lot of people within Adobe" who don't know what Dreamweaver or Contribute are either! (2) Actually, there is NOT much demand for a PDF to FrameMaker or even a PDF to InDesign "converter" at least as expressed directly to Adobe. Most users of these programs understand

RE: FM cannot find PDF joboptions

2006-12-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
What your IT guy says is unfortunately irrelevant here. What really happened was that the Acrobat 8 development team changed the location for storage of joboptions without considering its impact on the existing FrameMaker product's save as PDF feature. The next major version of FrameMaker will

FM cannot find PDF joboptions

2006-12-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
What your IT guy says is unfortunately irrelevant here. What really happened was that the Acrobat 8 development team changed the location for storage of joboptions without considering its impact on the existing FrameMaker product's "save as PDF" feature. The next major version of FrameMaker will

RE(~): Acrobat Pro 8.0 and FM 7.2

2006-12-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
om] > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:37 PM > To: Dov Isaacs; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Acrobat Pro 8.0 and FM 7.2 > > Thanks to all who responded. Turns out the FILE: port was the > culprit. Interestingly enough, I'm having some problems with > write-p

RE: Acrobat Pro 8.0 and FM 7.2

2006-12-07 Thread Dov Isaacs
In reality, it should not make any difference what order you install Acrobat and FrameMaker with one caveat. If you are installing the full Acrobat product (which you are), you must NOT install the copy of Distiller bundled with FrameMaker. If you have already installed that bundled Distiller, you

Acrobat Pro 8.0 and FM 7.2

2006-12-07 Thread Dov Isaacs
In reality, it should not make any difference what order you install Acrobat and FrameMaker with one caveat. If you are installing the full Acrobat product (which you are), you must NOT install the copy of Distiller bundled with FrameMaker. If you have already installed that bundled Distiller, you

RE: Recommended version of Acrobat for FM 7.1

2006-12-05 Thread Dov Isaacs
In theory, there should be no reason why Acrobat 5 (hopefully updated to Acrobat 5.0.5 - get the update on Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1platform=W indows) should not work directly with Acrobat 5 unless you are using the save as PDF feature. I

Recommended version of Acrobat for FM 7.1

2006-12-05 Thread Dov Isaacs
In theory, there should be no reason why Acrobat 5 (hopefully updated to Acrobat 5.0.5 - get the update on Adobe's web site at ) should not work directly with Acrobat 5 unless you are using the "save as PDF" feature. I know

RE: Greyscale

2006-12-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
Please repeat after me ... Adobe Illustrator is NOT, repeat NOT, repeat yet again NOT a general purpose PDF editor. Adobe Illustrator only understands a subset of PDF, the subset that corresponds to the objects, modes, and options of Illustrator. The only PDF file that is safe to

Greyscale

2006-12-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
Please repeat after me ... Adobe Illustrator is NOT, repeat NOT, repeat yet again NOT a general purpose PDF editor. Adobe Illustrator only "understands" a subset of PDF, the subset that corresponds to the objects, modes, and options of Illustrator. The only PDF file that is

RE: Greyscale

2006-11-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
. Let me evaluate it. - Dov -Original Message- From: Ben Warburton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:03 PM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Greyscale Many thanks for your advice Dov. We are using Acro 7 now

Greyscale

2006-11-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
n and have the time. Let me evaluate it. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Ben Warburton [mailto:bwarburton at wilcom.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:03 PM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Greyscale > > M

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
were trying to find out or gave you the wrong answer or both. Sorry! - Dov -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:54 AM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: framers@FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: Grayscale PDFs At 12:22 -0800 27

Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
ve the PDF file. "Adobe UK Support" either didn't understand what you were trying to find out or gave you the wrong answer or both. Sorry! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 200

RE: Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-27 Thread Dov Isaacs
Ben, The methodology that you are using works as long as NONE of your content is EPS or PDF containing color. That driver option does not do anything to content that passes through the driver. EPS and PDF (which is actually converted to the equivalent of EPS for output PostScript streams) is not

Grayscale PDFs

2006-11-27 Thread Dov Isaacs
Ben, The methodology that you are using "works" as long as NONE of your content is EPS or PDF containing color. That driver option does not do anything to content that passes "through" the driver. EPS and PDF (which is actually converted to the equivalent of EPS for output PostScript streams) is

Acro 7 Pro dies without warning

2006-11-24 Thread Dov Isaacs
Quite frankly, this doesn't sound like any symptom that we are aware of. Although Acrobat does indeed work with various antivirus programs, perhaps you can advise as to what antivirus programs, firewalls, anti-adware etc. programs you may have running and whether temporarily disabling same solves

RE: FM to Distiller font problems

2006-11-22 Thread Dov Isaacs
Rene, Unfortunately, without seeing the font file itself, it would be very difficult to know how or why this problem is occurring. I will assume that this Bullets3 font is in fact technically (if not legally) embeddable (that the fsType field in the OS/2 table of the TrueType font is set for

FM to Distiller font problems

2006-11-22 Thread Dov Isaacs
Rene, Unfortunately, without seeing the font file itself, it would be very difficult to know how or why this problem is occurring. I will assume that this "Bullets3" font is in fact technically (if not legally) embeddable (that the "fsType" field in the OS/2 table of the TrueType font is set

Is Acrobat Professional 8 shipping?

2006-11-21 Thread Dov Isaacs
Acrobat 8 has been shipping for at least a week. At this point, I wouldn't knowingly buy Acrobat 7. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: cseal at sympatico.ca > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 6:44 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: OT: Is Acrobat Professional 8

Arabic in Frame

2006-11-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
Simply stated, FrameMaker does not support Arabic or any other "right-to-left" language including Hebrew and Farsi. Although one can coerce Windows and FrameMaker to access Hebrew characters of Unicode fonts via various hacks, FrameMaker simply does not support the entry of text from right to

Weird PDF problem

2006-11-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
My gut feel is that these EPS files with Arial created by CorelDRAW are not quite kosher in terms of what is embedded as a font. Check your EPS save options and make sure that CorelDRAW is not converting the TrueType Arial font to an unhinted Type 1 font. - Dov > -Original

RE: Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiplereleases [was RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0]

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
Your insinuation that I give my advice wrt/ multiple versions of Acrobat installed in parallel as an attempt to coerce everyone to keep up with the latest offering is highly insulting and couldn't be farther from the truth! - Dov -Original Message- From: Charles Beck Sent:

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
My experience is that for FrameMaker, the graphics card is of relatively low significane for performance issues. I would endorse Richard's suggestions wrt/ memory and disk. A full boat of real memory and high speed disk (at least 7200 RPM if not higher) will make the most difference for long,

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
)! - Dov -Original Message- From: Dov Isaacs Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:51 PM To: Combs, Richard; James Dyson; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card? My experience is that for FrameMaker, the graphics card is of relatively

Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiplereleases [was "RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0"]

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
Your insinuation that I give my advice wrt/ multiple versions of Acrobat installed in parallel as an "attempt to coerce everyone to keep up with the latest offering" is highly insulting and couldn't be farther from the truth! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Charles Beck >

Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
My experience is that for FrameMaker, the graphics card is of relatively low significane for performance issues. I would endorse Richard's suggestions wrt/ memory and disk. A full boat of real memory and high speed disk (at least 7200 RPM if not higher) will make the most difference for long,

Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
t Ethernet)! - Dov > -Original Message----- > From: Dov Isaacs > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:51 PM > To: Combs, Richard; James Dyson; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card? > > My experience is that fo

RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
Expect it very soon. This is a good time, though, to repeat my warning that you should not attempt to have either multiple versions of Acrobat, multiple versions of Reader, and/or mixtures of Acrobat and Reader installed on a given system. Although it is possible to coerce the installers to do

RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
the documents (not that Reader 8 is a problem or doesn't have some new features - but it isn't needed for signatures if they already have Reader 7). - Dov -Original Message- From: Gillian Flato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:43 AM To: Dov Isaacs

RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
. - Dov -Original Message- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:54 AM To: Dov Isaacs; Gillian Flato; framers@FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 At 09:37 -0800 3/11/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: This is a good time, though

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
Expect it very soon. This is a good time, though, to repeat my warning that you should not attempt to have either multiple versions of Acrobat, multiple versions of Reader, and/or mixtures of Acrobat and Reader installed on a given system. Although it is possible to coerce the installers to do

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
ed to sign the documents (not that Reader 8 is a problem or doesn't have some new features - but it isn't needed for signatures if they already have Reader 7). - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Gillian Flato [mailto:gflato at nanometrics.com] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 200

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0

2006-11-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
itors, etc. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:54 AM > To: Dov Isaacs; Gillian Flato; framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 > > At 09:37

RE: PDF editing issues

2006-10-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
-Original Message- From: David Creamer Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:34 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF editing issues ... For some strange reason, in Acrobat you can't even _delete_ text unless you have the font installed on your system. Try these

RE: PDF editing issues

2006-10-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
Guess it was! Should have gotten a few more hours of sleep before hitting the machine this morning. - Dov -Original Message- From: David Creamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:30 AM To: Dov Isaacs; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF

PDF editing issues

2006-10-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: David Creamer > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:34 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: PDF editing issues > > ... > > For some strange reason, in Acrobat you can't even _delete_ text unless you > have the font installed on your system.

PDF editing issues

2006-10-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
Guess it was! Should have gotten a few more hours of sleep before hitting the machine this morning. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: David Creamer [mailto:ideaslists at ideastraining.com] > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:30 AM > To: Dov Isa

posting Frame jobs?

2006-10-19 Thread Dov Isaacs
Do NOT try posting jobs on the Adobe User-to-User forums ... - Dov > -Original Message- > From: owner-framers at omsys.com > [mailto:owner-framers at omsys.com] On Behalf Of Jason.Aiken at jeppesen.com > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:42 PM > To: framers at omsys.com >

RE: Understanding the difference between the Adobe Distiller embeddedin FrameMaker and Adobe Acrobat

2006-10-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Karyn, The difference is fairly simple. What is bundled with FrameMaker is Acrobat Distiller, the simple capability of creating PDF from PostScript along with integration of that capability into a PostScript printer driver instance labelled as AdobePDF. You don't get the Microsoft Office,

Understanding the difference between the Adobe Distiller embeddedin FrameMaker and Adobe Acrobat

2006-10-13 Thread Dov Isaacs
Karyn, The difference is fairly simple. What is bundled with FrameMaker is Acrobat Distiller, the simple capability of creating PDF from PostScript along with integration of that capability into a PostScript printer driver instance labelled as AdobePDF. You don't get the Microsoft Office,

RE: Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
If you can indeed OPEN and view the PDF file in either Reader or Acrobat, the file is not corrupted. An inability to delete or move a file is not indicative of file corruption, but rather, that some program is holding the file open. That program may be on your system or perhaps the server itself

Corrupted PDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
If you can indeed OPEN and view the PDF file in either Reader or Acrobat, the file is not "corrupted." An inability to delete or move a file is not indicative of file corruption, but rather, that some program is holding the file "open." That program may be on your system or perhaps the server

Experience Running FrameMaker on the new MacIntel

2006-09-26 Thread Dov Isaacs
Unless you are running "Bootcamp" and Windows, forget totally about running FrameMaker on a Mactel system. The OS for Mactel does NOT support classic mode under which FrameMaker runs with MacOS X. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at

RE: Options for cross-grading, Mac to PC

2006-09-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Steve Fred, That 90-day (or whatever) restriction on version-to-version upgrades on the same computer went out a number of years ago. However, when you are dealing with a platform-to-platform sidegrade, you are dealing with software on distinctly separate computers! The restriction is

RE: good flowchart software to use with Frame

2006-09-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
PNG is a raster format that does not scale well. Visio is primarily vector. You want to preserve the content as vector. Best best is to produce PDF from Visio and import either the PDF or EPS (saved from the PDF in Acrobat) into your FrameMaker document. - Dov -Original Message-

RE: Options for cross-grading, Mac to PC

2006-09-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
All Adobe's EULAs are posted for public inspection on its website. See http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/. - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Gold Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:53 AM To: Ridder, Fred

Options for cross-grading, Mac to PC

2006-09-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Steve & Fred, That 90-day (or whatever) restriction on version-to-version upgrades on the same computer went out a number of years ago. However, when you are dealing with a platform-to-platform "sidegrade," you are dealing with software on distinctly separate computers! The restriction is

good flowchart software to use with Frame

2006-09-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
PNG is a raster format that does not scale well. Visio is primarily vector. You want to preserve the content as vector. Best best is to produce PDF from Visio and import either the PDF or EPS (saved from the PDF in Acrobat) into your FrameMaker document. - Dov > -Original

Options for cross-grading, Mac to PC

2006-09-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
All Adobe's EULAs are posted for public inspection on its website. See . - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com] > On

RE: Question about Rational SODA tool

2006-09-05 Thread Dov Isaacs
If FrameMaker is to go bye-bye very soon, that would be real news to anybody at Adobe, especially the team working on the next release. Which colleague was told by whom? It is very easy for sales and marketing reps from competitors to spout out this type of cr*p, but it doesn't mean that it has

Question about Rational SODA tool

2006-09-05 Thread Dov Isaacs
If "FrameMaker is to go bye-bye very soon," that would be real news to anybody at Adobe, especially the team working on the next release. Which "colleague" was told by "whom?" It is very easy for sales and marketing reps from competitors to spout out this type of cr*p, but it doesn't mean that it

RE: FM Installation

2006-08-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
A few things ... If you have doggie-droppings on your system from Acrobat 4 (i.e., you didn't COMPLETELY uninstall Acrobat 4 prior to installing Acrobat 7), you definitely will have problems with FrameMaker 7's save as PDF feature as well as other integration of Acrobat with other system

FM Installation

2006-08-24 Thread Dov Isaacs
A few things ... If you have doggie-droppings on your system from Acrobat 4 (i.e., you didn't COMPLETELY uninstall Acrobat 4 prior to installing Acrobat 7), you definitely will have problems with FrameMaker 7's "save as PDF" feature as well as other integration of Acrobat with other system

RE: FrameViewer

2006-08-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
The concept of FrameViewer was effectively replaced by Acrobat. FrameViewer has not been available for many years! - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:23 AM To: Framers

FrameViewer

2006-08-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
The concept of FrameViewer was effectively replaced by Acrobat. FrameViewer has not been available for many years! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com] >

RE: Eps problem

2006-08-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
It was only on certain UNIX versions of FrameMaker that EPS would be so-rendered. That was never a feature of FrameMaker either on Macintosh or Windows. - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Eps problem

2006-08-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
It was only on certain UNIX versions of FrameMaker that EPS would be so-rendered. That was never a feature of FrameMaker either on Macintosh or Windows. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com >

RE: PDF Page Size Issues

2006-08-02 Thread Dov Isaacs
Please advise as to exactly how YOU create the PDF, save as PDF, printing to the AdobePDF PostScript printer driver instance, or manually creating and then distilling PostScript? - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reng,

PDF Page Size Issues

2006-08-02 Thread Dov Isaacs
Please advise as to exactly how YOU create the PDF, save as PDF, printing to the AdobePDF PostScript printer driver instance, or manually creating and then distilling PostScript? - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com >

RE: Can't print to Adobe PDF printer

2006-07-31 Thread Dov Isaacs
Confirming Fred's analysis of and recommended cure for problem. - Someone who still does monitor this forum -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ridder, Fred Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Can't print to Adobe PDF printer

2006-07-31 Thread Dov Isaacs
Confirming Fred's analysis of and recommended "cure" for problem. - Someone who still does monitor this forum > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com] > On Behalf

RE: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, the advice (I gave it) still holds. No reason why it shouldn't! - Dov -Original Message- From: Jon Harvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:32 AM To: Dov Isaacs; Steve Rickaby; framers@FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: Help with converting a Visio file

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, the advice (I gave it) still holds. No reason why it shouldn't! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Jon Harvey [mailto:JHarvey at cambridgesoft.com] > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 9:32 AM > To: Dov Isaacs; Steve Rickaby; framers at FrameUsers.com > Su

RE: Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker does NOT have the ability to import Visio native files. It does have the ability to use OLE (object linking and embedding) links to such a Viso document file, but that requires that Visio be installed on the system that runs FrameMaker. Also, OLE is notoriously unreliable. -

Help with converting a Visio file into a PDF

2006-06-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker does NOT have the ability to import "Visio native files." It does have the ability to use OLE (object linking and embedding) links to such a Viso document file, but that requires that Visio be installed on the system that runs FrameMaker. Also, OLE is notoriously unreliable. -

Speeding up FM 7.2 Startup

2006-06-21 Thread Dov Isaacs
Symbol font but it's the Microsoft TrueType one > shipped with Windows. > > Consulting my archive, I see that Dov Isaacs sent a message > to the list on 25/10/04 stating: > > "(3) Yes. Some peculiar interaction between the PostScript > driver and Windows 2000 / XP / Se

RE: Colour question

2006-06-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
Lester is right! And also be aware that NO, repeat NO, repeat yet again NO Windows driver, whether PostScript or otherwise, can accept CMYK from applications, except for EPS passthrough with the PostScript driver, since the Windows imaging model is totally RGB. Drivers can output CMYK (as the

Colour question

2006-06-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
Lester is right! And also be aware that NO, repeat NO, repeat yet again NO Windows driver, whether PostScript or otherwise, can accept CMYK from applications, except for EPS passthrough with the PostScript driver, since the Windows imaging model is totally RGB. Drivers can output CMYK (as the

Identifying the type of imported by copy files

2006-06-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
Unfortunately, apparently the figures weren't put into the FrameMaker document via simple copy/paste (bad idea anyway), but via OLE, "Object Linking and Embedding," which effectively requires that the FrameMaker document be edited on a system of the same platform with the application and the

RE: Adobe User Experience Recruiter

2006-05-24 Thread Dov Isaacs
Marisa Lenhardt is indeed an Adobe employee and has the title User Experience Recruiter. - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Denise L. Moss-Fritch Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:32 PM To: 'Bill Briggs';

Adobe "User Experience Recruiter"

2006-05-24 Thread Dov Isaacs
Marisa Lenhardt is indeed an Adobe employee and has the title "User Experience Recruiter." - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com] > On Behalf Of Denise L.

RE: Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
system and that may be why the CE characters specifically do not print. - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:52 AM To: Dov Isaacs; Framers@FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

RE: What do you use for PDF Generation?

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
some of that information in the Wurd document does make its way into the Description part of Document Properties ! - Dov -Original Message- From: Syed Zaeem Hosain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:36 PM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: Ron Teplitz; Framers

RE: Hollow bullets?

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
that character from within FrameMaker. Sorry! You'll need to find a font that has it as a symbol in the lower 256 and that maps to FrameMaker. - Dov -Original Message- From: Guy K. Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:42 PM To: framers@frameusers.com Cc: Dov

Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
t driver instance reports "no fonts" to the operating system and that may be why the CE characters specifically do not print. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Laura_J_Kirk at bd.com [mailto:Laura_J_Kirk at bd.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:52 AM > To: Dov Is

Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
font, e.g., Times New Roman CYR. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:53 AM > To: Laura_J_Kirk at bd.com; Framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: RE: Printing CE character tcaron to PDF > Importa

What do you use for PDF Generation?

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
A word of advice. Before you go loading up on el'cheapo $9.95 PDF creation software, make sure that what it generates is really kosher. We quite often see problems when these PDF files "escape" the environment in which they were created and attempts are made to either combine them with other PDF

What do you use for PDF Generation?

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
of Acrobat some of that information in the Wurd document does make its way into the "Description" part of "Document Properties" ! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Syed Zaeem Hosain [mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net] > Sent: Tuesday, May 23,

Hollow bullets?

2006-05-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
3, 2006 3:42 PM > To: framers at frameusers.com > Cc: Dov Isaacs > Subject: Hollow bullets? > > Does anybody out there, including the "dumb engineer," have > any advice on how to get FrameMaker 7.2 to have the same > three levels of bullets that "Wurd" produces na

Need Help Mac to PC

2006-05-22 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com > On Behalf Of Harro de Jong > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:16 AM > To: Mary Haas; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Need Help Mac to PC > > Mary Haas wrote : > ... > > > > Fonts: On the Mac I use only Adobe Postscript fonts

Printing CE character tcaron to PDF

2006-05-22 Thread Dov Isaacs
The Adobe Knowledgebase article you refer to has nothing to do with any problems associated with inability to print CE characters. And it does not suggest that you can solve anything by "downloading the current version of PostScript from Adobe and installing it on your computer." The article in

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