RE: Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

2006-05-16 Thread Dov Isaacs
I will reply on behalf of Adobe. (1) Diane Gaskill has no reliable source in Adobe that provided any release information. (2) Adobe has not and has no plans to move FrameMaker development back from India where in fact it is under active development. - Dov -Original Message-

Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

2006-05-16 Thread Dov Isaacs
I will reply on behalf of Adobe. (1) Diane Gaskill has no reliable source in Adobe that provided any release information. (2) Adobe has not and has no plans to move FrameMaker development "back" from India where in fact it is under active development. - Dov > -Original

Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

2006-05-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
Diane Gaskill obviously does NOT have a "reliable source" inside Adobe. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: flists.frameusers.com > On Behalf Of Alan Houser > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:51 AM > To: Diane Gaskill > Cc: framers at frameusers.com; Neil Tubb > Subject: Re:

RE: Wow, if this came to pass?!?!?!

2006-04-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
That piece is total and ridiculous speculation on his part. And it just won't happen! A very large number of Adobe employees would refuse to work in tyrannical, cultish environment encouraged by Apple's management. Nor would they work for Microsoft (stated to stave off the usual crew of paranoids

Wow, if this came to pass?!?!?!

2006-04-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
That piece is total and ridiculous speculation on his part. And it just won't happen! A very large number of Adobe employees would refuse to work in tyrannical, cultish environment encouraged by Apple's management. Nor would they work for Microsoft (stated to stave off the usual crew of paranoids

Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker (7.2, unstructured)?

2006-04-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker doesn't "RIP" anything ... In fact, PDF is converted to EPS when imported into FrameMaker. Other "image" formats or for that matter, other graphic formats are NOT turned into EPS. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at

A Technical Writing Suite From Adobe?

2006-04-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
Total and utter speculation by "The Content Wrangler" without any announcements, leaks (credible or otherwise), or other evidence to back it up ... > -Original Message- > From: lists.frameusers.com > On Behalf Of Bill Swallow > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:14 AM > To: framers at

RE: Funny

2006-03-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Au contraire ... The IF THEN ELSE and DO WHILE structures did exist at that timeframe in a language called COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language). As an undergrad at MIT and an MBA student at Cornell, writing applications in COBOL and System/360 Assembler language more than paid for my tuition

Funny

2006-03-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Au contraire ... The IF THEN ELSE and DO WHILE structures did exist at that timeframe in a language called COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language). As an undergrad at MIT and an MBA student at Cornell, writing applications in COBOL and System/360 Assembler language more than paid for my tuition

RE: Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

2006-03-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
I will confirm that I have seen this situation every so often and that the ONLY solution is to reboot your computer. (By this situation I mean oddball results when using save as PDF including but limited to crashes, failures to produce any output, etc.) This happens on occasion when using the

Line width in imported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs

2006-03-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker does not officially or fully support import of Adobe Illustrator files directly into FrameMaker documents. It only "works" when Illustrator files are saved with the "create PDF compatible file" option. In that case, FrameMaker "sees" the .AI file as a .PDF file and CONVERTS the PDF

RE: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
I assume that the EPS files are being imported as EPS into FrameMaker, correct? FrameMaker does not modify the content of EPS imported into documents. It is passed directly to PostScript printers, which the Distiller acts as for purpose of creating PDF files. HOWEVER, when generating

RE: Save as PDF in Frame 7.2

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
Acrobat Distiller version 5.05 or higher installed. Any ideas how I can make Save as PDF work in Frame 7.1 and 7.2 as well? I remember e-mails from Dov Isaacs (and I hope he's reading this and willing to replay) in which he advised us against reinstalitis ;-) and where he also advised us

RE: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
... Or you could change the preflight rules to allow a certain amount of tolerance. Allow 0.19 point as the lower limit instead of 0.20 point for linewidth. -Original Message- From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:34 AM To:

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
I assume that the EPS files are being imported as EPS into FrameMaker, correct? FrameMaker does not modify the content of EPS imported into documents. It is passed directly to PostScript printers, which the Distiller acts as for purpose of creating PDF files. HOWEVER, when generating

Save as PDF in Frame 7.2

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
dobe PDF printer driver > instance) works fine. When I try this in Frame 7.1 or 7.2, I get the > known message saying "To execute the Save as PDF command, you must > have Acrobat Distiller version 5.05 or higher installed". > > Any ideas how I can make "Save as PDF

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
... Or you could change the preflight rules to allow a certain amount of tolerance. Allow 0.19 point as the lower limit instead of 0.20 point for linewidth. > -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:34 AM > To: framers at

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Reng, Winfried > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:19 AM > To: framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: AW: Line width in inported graphics slightly > diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs > ... > > When I check the font size in my PDF

Opentype/special characters

2006-03-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
> > > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:04:58 -0800 > > From: "Dov Isaacs" > > Subject: RE: Opentype/special characters > > FrameMaker does not directly support the extended character sets > > available in many OpenType fonts. There are some registry hacks &g

Opentype/special characters

2006-02-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
Donna, FrameMaker does not directly support the extended character sets available in many OpenType fonts. There are some registry hacks that can be performed to provide a "window" over other parts of the font, but such techniques are not supported or endorsed by Adobe AND can leave you with

font of text above crop marks

2006-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
No, there is no way of controlling the font that FrameMaker uses for the text in what is called the bleed and slug areas (the area outside the logical page). In the current version of FrameMaker Windows, it is Times New Roman. (In earlier versions, I think that Times Roman was used). No the

Installing Acrobat 7

2006-01-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
Actually, the only kosher way to uninstall Acrobat under Windows is to use the Windows Add/Remove Control Panel. That invokes the "uninstaller" that is installed by the Acrobat Installer! (Isn't that as clear as mud?) To be very clear about this, you are looking for big time problems if you

Installing Acrobat 7

2006-01-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
Read my response from a few minutes ago ... > -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 Martha J Davidson > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:56 PM > To: framers

printing to Docutek issue ... rasters looking 300dpi (pixelly)

2005-12-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
Repeat after me ... "Write White is Never Quite Right!" Most likely the problem is that the Docutech is not properly adjusted. Many of the Xerox Docutech high speed monochrome digital presses are direct descendents of high speed analog copy machines. As such, unlike most laser printers

Minor annoyance saving as PDF under FrameMaker 7.2b144

2005-12-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
Confirming that the "annoying behaviour" is real. I'll submit as bug to FrameMaker team. > -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 beverly_robinson at

UPDATE: Minor annoyance saving as PDF under FrameMaker 7.2b144

2005-12-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
Since responding, per below, I have discussed this with our FrameMaker support organization and can update you as to what is really going on. The following is their response: This is by design. Five minutes after FrameMaker 7.1-7.2 has performed the last PDF conversion, it closes

FM bloat (NO PDF)

2005-12-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
To clear up some misconceptions: (1) EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) is a file format developed by Adobe, not by Aldus or Altsys. It may contain almost any combination of PostScript graphic objects including text, vector, and raster. (2) PostScript Level 2 fully supports JPEG compression. An EPS

FrameMaker on Win XP Pro 64-bit?

2005-11-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
FWIW, Adobe does not officially support any applications on the 64-bit editions of Windows. I have heard no reports, good or bad, so far of any use of FrameMaker in such an environment. On the other hand, I do know that the automatic mechanisms for creation of PDF -- use of AdobePDF PostScript

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