RE: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the AcrobatBookmarks pane
qui...@airmail.net wrote: Don't use the Save as PDF. Print to a PS file and distill that. The Save As PDF function is problematic. If you have Distiller open and print the PS file to a watched folder, then it will automatically begin distilling once the file is present. Additionally, Save As PDF doesn't use the Distiller application. I'm sorry, but that's just not true. Save As PDF most definitely uses Distiller. It's just that Adobe decided a while back (Acrobat 6, I believe) to change the name of the Windows printer instance from Acrobat Distiller to Adobe PDF. But it's still Distiller doing the, um, distilling of the PS. As for the problems people have with Save As PDF, most of them would disappear if FM were always pointed to the Adobe PDF printer instead of to whatever the system's default physical printer is. The SetPrint plugin from Sundorne (www.sundorne.com) can take care of that. Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 -- ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the AcrobatBookmarks pane
Hi, Dov. Please pardon my rant below ... not your personal fault at all! But, Adobe does seriously need to fix PDF generation from FrameMaker, IMHO. Dov wrote: FrameMaker (exceptionally unfortunately) unlike InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop does NOT have the ability to directly export PDF using the Adobe PDF Library. [rant] Is this still true for FrameMaker 9? (I have not checked this yet for the trial version that I install a few days onto a Windows 7 system here). If still true, *when* should we expect it to happen? Frankly, the inability to easily and reliably generate PDF from FrameMaker is something that has been present far too long! And this issue needed to be addressed *way* sooner than the fancy front-end that has been released in FrameMaker 9. It is one of my pet peeves with FrameMaker although I love the *program* otherwise (been using it - off and on - since 1988 on a Sun 3/50)! When I went back to using FrameMaker some years back, *every* time I have done a FrameMaker version upgrade (from 6.0 to my current 8.0 - every version!), I have had to reset the parameters and options I use for the PDF generation process with Acrobat (also have all recent versions). For the *same* set of books - and the settings are different for each book! This last time, I had to turn Paragraph Tags on for one large document for the process to work with FrameMaker 8 - the last time, I had to turn it off for FM 7.2 for the very same document. To avoid FrameMaker crashes or correctly generate the PDF output (without missing tables or duplicated pages containing long tables)! I suspect that I will have to do it again with FrameMaker 9 when I get there. :( And, even now, with FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 9, when I generate a PDF from one of my documents, it still annoys me that I have to open the PDF output in Acrobat and set properties that I *should* be able to feed into it from FrameMaker. Better integration of FrameMaker and Acrobat and/or far more control of the PDF generation from FrameMaker would be a real blessing! Since I do relatively frequent PDF generation (it is for specifications that tend to change relatively often, and I send out review copies in PDF format), this just adds delays and occasional oops, forgot to set the property moments! [/rant] So ... the real QUESTION: when do you/Adobe expect the Adobe FrameMaker software developers to learn how to use the Acrobat SDK, libraries, etc., and do it right? Please feel free to pass the question on to whoever is in charge of FrameMaker development! Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the AcrobatBookmarks pane
quills at airmail.net wrote: > Don't use the Save as PDF. Print to a PS file and distill that. The Save > As PDF function is problematic. If you have Distiller open and print the > PS file to a watched folder, then it will automatically begin distilling > once the file is present. Additionally, Save As PDF doesn't use the > Distiller application. I'm sorry, but that's just not true. Save As PDF most definitely uses Distiller. It's just that Adobe decided a while back (Acrobat 6, I believe) to change the name of the Windows printer instance from Acrobat Distiller to Adobe PDF. But it's still Distiller doing the, um, distilling of the PS. As for the problems people have with Save As PDF, most of them would disappear if FM were always pointed to the Adobe PDF printer instead of to whatever the system's default physical printer is. The SetPrint plugin from Sundorne (www.sundorne.com) can take care of that. Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 --
FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the AcrobatBookmarks pane
Hi, Dov. Please pardon my rant below ... not your personal fault at all! But, Adobe does seriously need to fix PDF generation from FrameMaker, IMHO. Dov wrote: > FrameMaker (exceptionally unfortunately) unlike InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop does NOT have the ability to directly export PDF using the Adobe PDF Library. [rant] Is this still true for FrameMaker 9? (I have not checked this yet for the trial version that I install a few days onto a Windows 7 system here). If still true, *when* should we expect it to happen? Frankly, the inability to easily and reliably generate PDF from FrameMaker is something that has been present far too long! And this issue needed to be addressed *way* sooner than the fancy front-end that has been released in FrameMaker 9. It is one of my pet peeves with FrameMaker although I love the *program* otherwise (been using it - off and on - since 1988 on a Sun 3/50)! When I went back to using FrameMaker some years back, *every* time I have done a FrameMaker version upgrade (from 6.0 to my current 8.0 - every version!), I have had to reset the parameters and options I use for the PDF generation process with Acrobat (also have all recent versions). For the *same* set of books - and the settings are different for each book! This last time, I had to turn Paragraph Tags on for one large document for the process to work with FrameMaker 8 - the last time, I had to turn it off for FM 7.2 for the very same document. To avoid FrameMaker crashes or correctly generate the PDF output (without missing tables or duplicated pages containing long tables)! I suspect that I will have to do it again with FrameMaker 9 when I get there. :( And, even now, with FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 9, when I generate a PDF from one of my documents, it still annoys me that I have to open the PDF output in Acrobat and set properties that I *should* be able to feed into it from FrameMaker. Better integration of FrameMaker and Acrobat and/or far more control of the PDF generation from FrameMaker would be a real blessing! Since I do relatively frequent PDF generation (it is for specifications that tend to change relatively often, and I send out review copies in PDF format), this just adds delays and occasional "oops, forgot to set the property" moments! [/rant] So ... the real QUESTION: when do you/Adobe expect the Adobe FrameMaker software developers to learn how to use the Acrobat SDK, libraries, etc., and "do it right"? Please feel free to pass the question on to whoever is in charge of FrameMaker development! Z