PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:53 -0700 4/4/13, Matt Sullivan wrote: >For anyone who has access to Macintosh software, PDF creation is native on the >last few Mac OS. This is true, but by Apple's own admission the Quartz PDF renderer (or whatever they call it) doesn't product publication-quality PDF. If you need PDFX

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-05 Thread Gillian Flato
If any of you guys use Live Cycle Designer like I do to make dynamic forms, you won't get that with any PDF Creator, only with Acrobat Pro. (Just sayin') -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat {WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2013-Apr-03 11:44 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: I virtually never edit the PDFs I generate myself, but I sometimes use Acrobat to extract and combine pages from various PDFs, consolidate comments from multiple copies of a PDF, and OCR scanned documents. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Syed

Re: PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat {WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I apologize if this is off topic, but here is a list of Acrobat alternatives. (Please feel free to send me corrections or updates.) Free: - A free plug-in is available for Word 2007; comes with 2010 - Bullzip PDF Printer - PDF995 - PrimoPDF - CutePDF

Re: PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Matt Sullivan
For anyone who has access to Macintosh software, PDF creation is native on the last few Mac OS. -MattMatt R. Sullivanco-authorPublishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11P:949.388.5683 |C:714.585.2335 |m...@mattrsullivan.com@mattrsullivanLinkedInfacebookmattrsullivan.com On Apr 4, 2013, at

RE: PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Quatro
The key question to ask about these is do they support pdfMark PostScript commands. This is the technology that FrameMaker uses to get bookmarks, links, etc. in their PDFs. If you can't get these from the other tools, it would be a serious limitation in my opinion. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing

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2013-04-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Thanks, Rick! That is good input. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:08 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat

RE: PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread VLM TechSubs
What about PDF Creator, http://www.pdfforge.org/? -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:20 PM To: Shmuel Wolfson;

RE: PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Gillian Flato
If any of you guys use Live Cycle Designer like I do to make dynamic forms, you won't get that with any PDF Creator, only with Acrobat Pro. (Just sayin') -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat {WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2013-Apr-03 11:44 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > I virtually never edit the PDFs I generate myself, but I sometimes > use Acrobat to extract and combine pages from various PDFs, > consolidate comments from multiple copies of a PDF, and OCR scanned > documents. > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:40 AM,

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat {WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I apologize if this is off topic, but here is a list of Acrobat alternatives. (Please feel free to send me corrections or updates.) Free: - A free plug-in is available for Word 2007; comes with 2010 - Bullzip PDF Printer - PDF995 - PrimoPDF - CutePDF

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Thanks for the list! It will help me during my evaluations soon. An addition to your list: "easyPDF" from BCL Technologies ($29.95) http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/pdf-printer/ And I think, but not sure, that Pdf995 costs ($9.95) to get "without a sponsor page" ... all their tools cost this,

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Matt Sullivan
For anyone who has access to Macintosh software, PDF creation is native on the last few Mac OS. -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 949.388.5683 | C: 714.585.2335 | matt at mattrsullivan.com @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Quatro
The key question to ask about these is do they support pdfMark PostScript commands. This is the technology that FrameMaker uses to get bookmarks, links, etc. in their PDFs. If you can't get these from the other tools, it would be a serious limitation in my opinion. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Thanks, Rick! That is good input. Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:08 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: PDF and Alternatives to

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread VLM TechSubs
What about PDF Creator, http://www.pdfforge.org/? -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 4:20 PM To: Shmuel Wolfson; framers

PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat [WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

2013-04-04 Thread VLM TechSubs
There is also PDFill PDF Editor, https://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html. Elchanan -Original Message- From: VLM TechSubs [mailto:techs...@vibrantlivingministries.org] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 5:23 PM To: 'Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)'; 'Shmuel Wolfson'; 'framers