Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-08-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
eve Johnson > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:10 AM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: Framers E-mail List > Subject: Re: Acrobat 9 - a disaster > > Show me in writing where Adobe says you should not install the same > version of Reader and Acrobat on the same system. I cannot find it. > I

Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-08-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
ram (often not a very pretty site). - Dov From: Troy Fey [mailto:troy@opinicus.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:25 AM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: dr_gonzo at pobox.com; Framers E-mail List Subject: Re: Acrobat 9 - a disaster Dov -- I save all your responses. Thanks for your c

What version of FM is compatible with Windows 7

2010-01-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
There is a very big difference between "works under Windows 7" versus "is supported on Windows 7." The only version of FrameMaker supported for Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) is FrameMaker 9. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:fr

What version of FM is compatible with Windows 7

2010-01-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
any problems or want a question answered. - Dov From: Susan Modlin [mailto:smod...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:14 PM To: Dov Isaacs; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: What version of FM is compatible with Windows 7 OK, this may be a dumb question, but

Grayscale Images are RGB

2010-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
Two possibilities here ... (1) Assuming you are using the "RGB option" for "save as PDF" or printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance, except for images are in EPS format, all grayscale and CMYK images imported into FrameMaker will come out as RGB. FrameMaker is a GDI app

Grayscale Images are RGB

2010-01-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
tt White [mailto:swhite at alamark.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:45 AM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com List; Jason Hauman > Subject: Re: Grayscale Images are RGB > > Dov > Thanks for your reply. > Here's the history. We've been using

Windows 7 and Frame 7.1

2010-07-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker 9 is a 32-bit program that will properly install and run under Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit versions. FrameMaker 7.1 is also a 32-bit program. Adobe does not officially support it under Windows Vista or Windows 7, either 32-bit or 64-bit version. You may coerce it to install an

Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-24 Thread Dov Isaacs
I heard my name used in vain (if not on-line!). In terms of Alison's original posting ... The symptoms you describe with regards to Acrobat 9 are not standard Acrobat 9 behaviour. You did not post exactly what Windows and/or browser versions you are using, but we currently are unaware of any no

Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
robat of the same version on a system is most unlikely to cause the symptoms described. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinaski69 at gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 7:19 AM > To: Fei Min Lorente > Cc: Dov Isaacs; Framers E-mai

Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
quickly!) - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinaski69 at gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 7:37 AM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: Framers E-mail List > Subject: Re: Acrobat 9 - a disaster > > Since when? Is that by design or by accident? Doesn&

Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
ge- > From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 7:55 AM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: Framers E-mail List > Subject: Re: Acrobat 9 - a disaster > > Dov, > > Although this takes the thread off-topic a bit, is there any way to > configure Reader

Acrobat 9 - a disaster

2010-07-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
age- > From: Guy K. Haas [mailto:guy at hiskeyboard.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 7:57 AM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: Framers E-mail List > Subject: Re: Acrobat 9 - a disaster > > But, Dov--- > > I have both installed so that when a reviewer runs into a problem, I

Discussion of Acrobat & Reader Concurrent Installation (Was: Acrobat 9 - a disaster)

2010-07-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
inal Message- > From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinaski69 at gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:10 AM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: Framers E-mail List > Subject: Re: Acrobat 9 - a disaster > > Show me in writing where Adobe says you should not install the same > version

Restoring PDF icon to .pdf files after removing Reader

2010-07-26 Thread Dov Isaacs
Bernie, Looks like you found one of the nasty side effects of concurrent installations and then trying to repair the damage. For better or worse, many applications don't simply associate a program with a suffix, but register what is known as a "shell extension" into the Windows registry. Your

Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

2010-06-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
Whatever problem you are experiencing has nothing to do with Windows 7 or Acrobat 9, but probably relates to problems with FrameMaker 8. For the record, the "hotfix" is for Windows XP and Vista only. Windows 7 already is fixed for the issues for which the hotfix applied. Furthermore, the issue

Is it possible to Save As PDF from FrameMaker 9 using Acrobat 7 on Windows7?

2010-06-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
Acrobat 7 does not support any version of Windows beyond Windows XP and certainly NOT any 64-bit version of Windows. With all due respect, if you are considering upgrades of operating system and hardware (such as more memory than can be supported by a 32-bit OS), you should consider the FULL cost

Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

2010-06-30 Thread Dov Isaacs
Diana, There is no such thing as an "Acrobat PDF v9" file. I will assume that you really mean a "PDF file generated via Acrobat 9." I don't think that you are really encountering a problem with the fact that a file may have been produced with Acrobat 9, but rather that the joboptions used to c

Printing to PS and distilling to PDF question

2010-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
A few comments about this issue: (1) The Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance used to create PDF explicitly by printing or implicitly by the FrameMaker "save as PDF" feature has a special option in its "driver plug-in" component labeled "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document f

Announcement - Acrobat 10 Launch Event - Israel

2010-11-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
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Announcement - Acrobat 10 Launch Event - Israel

2010-11-15 Thread Dov Isaacs
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Adobe Acrobat PDF Tracker Question

2010-10-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
Problem is very simple. You really shouldn't have Reader and Acrobat on the same system. Really doesn't buy you anything. Furthermore, the last program installed is the one that "owns" the .pdf extension. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
Acrobat X is not shipping yet nor has Adobe committed to a November 1 ship date. It is pronounced "Acrobat Ten" - as usual, it's a marketing "thing" ... - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com]

[OT] Adobe's pricing policy

2010-10-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
Acrobat X was announced, but is certainly not yet shipping. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > Art Campbell > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:36 AM > To: Yves Barbion > Cc

Test Posting

2011-04-12 Thread Dov Isaacs
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RE(~): Which FMaker version?

2011-08-13 Thread Dov Isaacs
There are several considerations, some of which have already been addressed on this thread. (1) There is only one ?current? version of FrameMaker and that is FrameMaker 10. Since there is relatively little FrameMaker product ever in the retail channels, it is very unlikely that you are

[semi-ot] What PDF/X standard is your favorite?

2011-12-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
>From the viewpoint of reliable PDF publishing workflows, PDF/X-4 is definitely >the way to go. It supports fully ICC profile-based color managed RGB and CMYK >color along with spot color as well as "live" transparency. PDF/X-4 is supported via direct export from InDesign, Illustrator, and Phot

"[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
Joanna, FrameMaker is not a graphic arts application. Its output is primarily RGB and the PostScript generated by the driver is not setup to generate PDF that will conform to the PDF/X-1a specification. The PDF/X-1a specification doesn't allow for any of the cross reference stuff capabilities

"[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-04 Thread Dov Isaacs
actly matching any and all CMYK values specified in FrameMaker or any non-EPS CMYK content placed therein. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Jacob Sch?ffer [mailto:js at grafikhuset.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:03 PM > To: Dov Isaacs; framers at lists.frameus

Concurrent Installations of Adobe Acrobat and Reader

2011-02-09 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, I do have comments. Yes, Reader X and Acrobat X can co-reside on the same system and do have a rudimentary means of allowing switching back and forth. Personally, I would strongly NOT recommend this type of configuration EXCEPT for end-users who love to open e-mail attachments from unknown

Adobe Pro 7 and Windows 7

2011-02-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
No, Acrobat 7 does not work fully under Windows 7! Nor does it work fully under Vista! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > Stephen O'Brien > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011

FM9 and Windows 7 64 bit - Help!

2011-01-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
Alison, The combination of Windows 7 64-bit and FrameMaker 9 not only is supported by Adobe, but it does normally work. And it works on four systems I use with Windows 7 64-bit. The fact that it is installed in the "Program Files (x86)" directory is not a problem. By convention, that is where

FM9 and Windows 7 64 bit - SOLUTION

2011-01-21 Thread Dov Isaacs
find more successful that directly installing from the installation CD/DVD media. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Alison Craig [mailto:Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com] > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:18 AM > To: Dov Isaacs; framers at lists.frameusers.com >

Historical FrameMaker upgrades

2011-01-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
Since FrameMaker 7.x is no longer eligible for upgrade pricing and because there was no version of FrameMaker for Macintosh beyond FrameMaker 7, there is no remaining crossgrade path for users of Macintosh versions of FrameMaker. Your only upgrade path now is to buy a newer version of FrameMaker

PowerPoint to Frame

2011-06-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Assuming you are using a reasonably recent version of Microsoft Office, there is another easy way of extracting the graphical elements from the original document. Save the Office document using one of the new formats such as .DOCX (for Word), .XLSX (for Excel), or .PPTX (for PowerPoint). Those "

So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
Please note that upgrades to FrameMaker 9 were no longer available from Adobe as of the day of release of FrameMaker 10. The only way to upgrade to FrameMaker 9 would be to find a legal copy of a FrameMaker 9 upgrade that is still on some reseller's shelf. And since you typically did not see suc

So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
No one from Adobe is "forcing" you to upgrade! :) On the other hand, don't expect support for newer versions of Windows and interoperability with new versions of both Adobe and non-Adobe applications with four version old software. If your self-contained environment needs no more than what Fra

So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-02 Thread Dov Isaacs
It is absolutely not going to ever happen! And what makes you really think that Apple gives a d*mn about FrameMaker? From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:13 AM To: Shmuel Wolfson;

So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

2011-03-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
Will never happen, either or both! At 09:44 -0500 1/3/11, Alan Houser wrote: Indeed it was. In my dreams, Apple buys Adobe and forces them to revive it. -- Steve -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

File sizes, frame 9, comparison times

2011-03-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker is a 32-bit application, not a 64-bit application. As such, it cannot use any more than a 2GB address space. Using FrameMaker under any 64-bit version of Windows with more than 2GB of memory only assists FrameMaker in that such additional memory can dramatically reduce system paging o

RE(2): FM10 does not output Adobe PDF

2011-05-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
What you were told is absolutely incorrect. A ?headless? version of Acrobat Distiller does come with FrameMaker 10. The only reason you would need a standalone copy of Acrobat would be if you wanted to further manipulate the PDF file (not just view it with Adobe Reader). Please, when dealing wi

RE(4): FM10 does not output Adobe PDF

2011-05-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
rgvinsson [mailto:bod...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 5:19 PM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: RE(2): FM10 does not output Adobe PDF Dov, In the PS you touch a rather interesting case: the difference between Acrobat and GhostScript. Do you know of a whi

Embed MS Excel File in FM8?

2011-05-13 Thread Dov Isaacs
No, that cannot be done. - Dov From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Miller, Chris M Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:34 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Embed MS Excel File in FM8? Hi all, Can I e

Frame PDF

2011-05-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
What do you mean that "Distiller has been lost?" In your "Start Menu" you cannot find "Adobe Acrobat Distiller X" or if you do have it you cannot make it run? You cannot "download" Distiller! FrameMaker 10 offers installation of a "headless" version of Distiller if you don't have Acrobat instal

FrameMaker 9

2011-05-19 Thread Dov Isaacs
For better or worse, problems with 32-bit applications under 64-bit versions of Windows generally have absolutely nothing to do with the "migration from 32-bit to 64-bit addressing" in and of itself. 64-bit versions of Windows run 32-bit applications in 32-bit mode in the same way they ran under

Minion Pro Italic

2011-11-13 Thread Dov Isaacs
Choosing the italic style of Minion Pro Regular should yield the true italic when displaying, printing, and/or creating PDF. You can verify this by testing with some text using lower case 'a' and similar characters which are very different in real italic than in synthesized (i.e. obliqued) ital

Minion Pro Italic

2011-11-13 Thread Dov Isaacs
- Dov From: Jack DeLand [mailto:jackdel...@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:46 AM To: Dov Isaacs; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Minion Pro Italic Thanks, Dov. To be utterly clear: choosing Minion Pro in the Family dropdown and selecting Italic from the Angle d

PowerPoint to Framemaker

2011-10-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
One should be very careful in using RTF as the means of transferring PowerPoint slides to a FrameMaker document. The last several versions of Microsoft Office applications support live transparency (drop shadows, reflections, clipped images, etc.) and saving to RTF from these applications suppo

Future Plans for Adobe FM/RH?

2012-04-19 Thread Dov Isaacs
Adobe has made no official announcement, but the products are still both under active development. - Dov From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jenny Hecker Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:25 AM To: framers at lis

Acrobat X Pro Crashing

2012-12-04 Thread Dov Isaacs
and manually download and install the update. A very large number of anomalies have been resolved in Acrobat 10 since it was initially released as 10.0.0 in Autumn 2010. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDD200.5F070160] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated

Enabling a PDF for comments from FrameMaker Settings

2012-01-11 Thread Dov Isaacs
No, but sorry, this cannot be accomplished via PDFMark or any other PostScript code! - Dov From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Baruch Brodersen Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:04 PM To: Rick Quatro Cc: fram

Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing from

2012-01-16 Thread Dov Isaacs
Quite frankly, I don't know of anyplace where "Adobe" as a company officially recommends GIF for any graphics. And JPEG certainly is not recommended by Adobe for anything other than "photographic" images, i.e. imagery that would not be more readily represented via text and/or vector graphics.

MathType Equations not printing clearly in FrameMaker 9.0

2012-01-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
PCL printers cannot properly print EPS. EPS => Encapsulated PostScript. All you will get with any printers other than PostScript is the TIFF preview header from the EPS file. Workaround if you don't have a PostScript printer is to create PDF and then print from Acrobat (or Adobe Reader).

FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)

2012-06-19 Thread Dov Isaacs
a from various other sources. There are numerous versions of Helvetica Neue. You cannot assume that these designs are all the same. It is amazing what trouble you can get into with this. The same problems occur with the various flavours of "Times" ... - Dov [cid:image001.

Adobe Community Forums and Obtuse website

2012-06-19 Thread Dov Isaacs
go and I got there in two to three mouse clicks. Would this be the way I would personally design a website. Probably not, but then again, I am not a website designer - thanks, I'll keep my day job. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CD4E02.784177F0] Dov Isaacs Princip

FrameMaker Feature Requests

2012-05-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
"Dov Isaaks" never monitored this forum. :) From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig Ede Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 9:30 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FrameMaker Feature Requests Dov Isaaks of Adobe use

Manually resizing table cell width

2012-11-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
system's configuration, especially video card and video driver version. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDB9F0.966E8F10] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345

Acrobat X Pro settings

2012-09-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
ved the PDF file on one system versus another or the original page sizes of the particular pages you annotated on one system versus another would cause the file size discrepancy.) - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CD8A1E.F9E83890] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorpor

RE(~): Acrobat X Pro settings

2012-09-04 Thread Dov Isaacs
Chris, Please send the files. Extract once and do same annotation on both systems and send me the resultant files using "save as PDF" Shift+Ctrl+S, not regular "save" Ctrl+S!! - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CD8AB7.52E351D0] Dov Isaacs Principal Sci

Graphics & transparency

2012-09-05 Thread Dov Isaacs
Thus, you will not see a clear background. (4)Be careful to check the "runaround properties" of the EPS file you place. That could force the clear background to be "lost" in not only display, but print! - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CD8B77.D51D2AC0]

Help with unicode and question marks

2012-09-19 Thread Dov Isaacs
For the record, there is no legally available, non-Adobe version of Myriad Pro. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CD9680.317BF540] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA

Help with unicode and question marks

2012-09-20 Thread Dov Isaacs
01CD9722.1A68A400] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA http://www.adobe.com Feel free to print this e-mail if your needs dictate hard copy. There is no need to feel

Very slow paging in FM 10 in graphic-heavy files

2013-04-03 Thread Dov Isaacs
memory; less paging equals much higher performance. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE3048.6D3D5E40] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA

Now Working

2013-04-05 Thread Dov Isaacs
eeks. I will try avoiding e-mails other than those that are truly urgent! :-) [cid:image001.png at 01CE31D4.774F5A40] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345 Park Avenue Sa

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
le within your system's file system. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE0AB3.DDADED30] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
they refuse to provide a case number for your call, demand to speak with a supervisor!!! - Dov ("angry in San Jose") [cid:image001.png at 01CE0AB5.40A2EA20] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaa

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
cal" drive. The Adobe applications typically don't attempt any special recovery operations when such read errors and/or timeouts occur. That is likely the source of problems reported. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE0AB6.8EBB5390] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, please provide the contact information for the ?service tech? who gave you that misinformation!!! - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE0AE1.980BC2B0] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com

Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-16 Thread Dov Isaacs
enType migration. There is minor chance of text reflow, but also the possibility of problems with mapping of non-ASCII characters (this is especially true for all characters in fonts such as Symbol, Carta, Sonata, and Zapf Dingbats). -Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDF41A.14B92F20] Do

Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
that includes copies of all the printer resident fonts, including the Type 1 version of ITC Zapf Dingbats for use on computers using the particular printer. Problem solved! - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDF4FE.FBFD6290] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536

Random links in pdf don't work, but only on RHEL 5

2013-01-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
ailable from the Adobe website - be prepared to provide sample offending PDF file). - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDF500.43EF8C30] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345

Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
d print purposes. Fill out a bug form on Adobe's website. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDF59F.3A828590] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345 Park Avenue San

Random links in pdf don't work, but only on RHEL 5

2013-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
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 [cid:image001.png at 01CDF59F.A03BA100] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporate

Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
em "morons?" Likewise, you may not like the UI makeover of FrameMaker (maybe I don't either), but that doesn't make those who designed and implemented it "morons." - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDF5A0.805BE150] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe System

Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
mail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 5:48 PM To: Dov Isaacs; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way! Yes, I figured that out. I believe I called Adobe tech support about th

The "Zapfdingbats" Font Family is not available. (Was: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!)

2013-01-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
remapping to Unicode at the same time. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDF919.2249C150] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 US

The "Zapfdingbats" Font Family is not available. (Was: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!)

2013-01-23 Thread Dov Isaacs
Make no such assumptions. Assume that for correct output you need the actual font on your editing system! - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CDF936.14256E40] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com

Does a FrameMaker Reader/Viewer exist?

2013-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
- Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE1C02.27690770] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA http://www.adobe.com<http://www.adobe.com/&

FrameMaker-specific preflight problem: update

2013-03-13 Thread Dov Isaacs
at 01CE1FFF.81A419E0] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com> 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA http://www.adobe.com<http://www.adobe.com/> Feel free to print t

Copy of FM 9 for coworker

2013-03-13 Thread Dov Isaacs
And said "retail FM9 license" must not have previously used as the basis for an upgrade! - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE2002.467E2A60] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mai

Custom font renders different when saving as PDF vs print PS and distill

2013-03-18 Thread Dov Isaacs
ript driver via GDI. Apparently that UNIX PostScript generator code had some problems mapping characters in Rick's symbol font. It could have been a missing mapping table in the font itself. - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE23E2.E19480B0] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Syst

messages to fmer...@adobe.com bounce

2013-03-28 Thread Dov Isaacs
I?ll let the list know when the problem is resolved (assuming they respond to me!) ? - Dov [cid:image001.png at 01CE2BD5.EB4CA420] Dov Isaacs Principal Scientist Adobe Systems Incorporated +1 408.536.2896 (tel) +1 408.242.5161 (cell) isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.

RE: 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 Post

RE: 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 compressi

RE: 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:29 PM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject:

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

RE: 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 in

RE: 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 instal

RE: Installing Acrobat 7

2006-01-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
Read my response from a few minutes ago ... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Martha J Davidson > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:56 PM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Installing Acrobat 7 > > At 12:00 PM 1/6/2

RE: 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 PostSc

RE: 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 docume

RE: Opentype/special characters

2006-03-01 Thread Dov Isaacs
acters > > > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:04:58 -0800 > > From: "Dov Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Opentype/special characters > > FrameMaker does not directly support the extended character sets > > available in many OpenType fonts. The

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 PostScript

RE: Save as PDF in Frame 7.2

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
Adobe 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 a

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: framers@Fram

RE: 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@FrameUsers.com > Subject: AW: Line width in inported graphics slightly > diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs > ... > > When I check the font size in my PDF files

RE: 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 por

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

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 a

RE: 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@lists.f

RE: 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

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