Robert Lauriston wrote:
It may be a slight exaggeration to say that no competent corporate IT
department will approve the use of Windows 8 until next year.
If then. Many companies grimly clung to Win XP until long after Vista had slunk
from the stage and been replaced by Win 7. I suspect
I teach book/composite functionality, use and operations on a regular basis. I
show my students the Add to Books feature in the menu, and then tell them to
forget it. The sort issue goes back to the beginning of books in FrameMaker in
Windows.
What I teach is:
- Create the book, or open an
Dov,
I didn't initiate this conversation, but I'd like to chime in.
Your points are well taken, but a problem I had with the Adobe PI substitution
was that simple bullets were coming across as question marks in my PDFs. That
would indicate a mapping problem that is pretty obvious.
Also, you
I've looked at PDFs in a text editor and seen readable code. Maybe the
non-binary format is extinct as of some version of Acrobat.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Dov Isaacs isa...@adobe.com wrote:
Please repeat after me, “PDF is a binary file format!” You cannot create,
edit, or in most
Adobe Pi's character map is different than the Type 1 Zapf that used
to be included with FrameMaker, so without the old font the solid,
hollow, and square bullets in the template I inherited showed up as
question marks in my online help and PDF.
Maybe Adobe Pi was designed by the same morons who
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of the three? five? FM settings
that can cause blank pages?
Every once in a while I need to clean them out of an inherited
document but I always forget to make a list.
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That seems like unnecessary extra work to me. You can get the same
results in FrameMaker:
1. open the book file
2. select the document after which you want the new documents to appear
3. select Add Files
4. select the .fm files in reverse of the order in which you want them to appear
5. click
Craig,
I will assume that the symptoms you are reporting are indeed occurring!
That being the case, it would appear that FrameMaker is simply not mapping the
Type 1 Zapf Dingbats character positions to the proper positions in Adobe Pi, a
Unicode-based OpenType CFF font. In the old Type 1
It was extinct as of Acrobat 1.0! Just because some content in the PDF appears
as clear, ASCII text, doesn't mean that the file in non-binary. Please trust me
on this!!!
- Dov
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Robert,
Please see the response I sent out a few minutes ago. There is nothing wrong
with the Adobe Pi font, but rather, there is a nasty mapping issue that should
have been resolved in FrameMaker if they in fact had a .ini file setting
mapping Type 1 Zapf Dingbats to Adobe Pi or any other
Maybe we can just stop labelling people as morons or incompetents ...
And by the way, if you know anything about the real history of OS/2, you
wouldn't be labelling them as incompetents. The fact was that OS/2 was
supposed to be the enterprise OS for PCs as a joint Microsoft / IBM project
Hi, Robert.
There may well be _some_ readable text inside a PDF file, but the file is
binary for sure - most of it will be unreadable in that regard.
If you edit a PDF file with a standard ASCII text editor and save the file, it
_may_ get quite corrupted (for example, if the editor adds life
Robert Lauriston wrote:
> It may be a slight exaggeration to say that no competent corporate IT
> department will approve the use of Windows 8 until next year.
If then. Many companies grimly clung to Win XP until long after Vista had slunk
from the stage and been replaced by Win 7. I suspect
I teach book/composite functionality, use and operations on a regular basis. I
show my students the "Add to Books" feature in the menu, and then tell them to
forget it. The sort issue goes back to the beginning of books in FrameMaker in
Windows.
What I teach is:
- Create the book, or open an
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I've looked at PDFs in a text editor and seen readable code. Maybe the
non-binary format is extinct as of some version of Acrobat.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Dov Isaacs wrote:
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> Please repeat after me, ?PDF is a binary file format!? You cannot create,
> edit, or in most cases readily
Adobe Pi's character map is different than the Type 1 Zapf that used
to be included with FrameMaker, so without the old font the solid,
hollow, and square bullets in the template I inherited showed up as
question marks in my online help and PDF.
Maybe Adobe Pi was designed by the same morons who
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of the three? five? FM settings
that can cause blank pages?
Every once in a while I need to clean them out of an inherited
document but I always forget to make a list.
That seems like unnecessary extra work to me. You can get the same
results in FrameMaker:
1. open the book file
2. select the document after which you want the new documents to appear
3. select Add > Files
4. select the .fm files in reverse of the order in which you want them to appear
5. click
obat and Reader and then for other Adobe applications. Although the
> design of each of the glyphs is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a
> fairly good job as a substitute and in some cases, the glyphs are much
> more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat's highly dated look.
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> of FrameMaker (maybe I don't either), but that doesn't make those who
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Hi, Robert.
There may well be _some_ readable text inside a PDF file, but the file is
binary for sure - most of it will be unreadable in that regard.
If you edit a PDF file with a standard ASCII text editor and save the file, it
_may_ get quite corrupted (for example, if the editor adds life
Yes, I figured that out. I believe I called Adobe tech support about
the problem, so they should be aware of it.
You're right, there's nothing wrong with the design of Adobe Pi. The
moron was whoever did the Zapf > Pi mapping in FrameMaker 8.
The UI makeover in FM9 was wrong in so many ways that
I know a lot about OS/2. I covered operating systems for PC World from
1989 to 1993 and used every version from 1.0 to 4.0. It was
technically advanced in certain ways but utterly unsuitable for the
average users IBM somehow thought would buy it. Microsoft had no
choice but to unchain themselves
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