Re: PDF Import (Brad Anderson)

I have the same issues with printing referenced pdf files. Printing slows down to a crawl and takes for ever. I use FM 10 and 11. For some reason it seems version 7 does a better job. I have tried all sorts of tricks to no avail. Regards Bjørn ___

Re: PDF Import

Brad, FM converts (on the fly) PDFs to EPS internally, so if you have a lot of them (I'm assuming one of your PatternStream catalogues) and you don't have your TEMP area on a big fast SSD, it's going to spend a lot of time writing out and reading back in temp files. All I can suggest

RE: PDF Import

Hi Arnis, Is it really true that FM makes an internal PDF- EPS conversion? If true that’s very interesting. As to my knowledge Adobe unceasingly discourage the use of EPS when PDF is available because the PostScript imaging model can't render a quite substantial amount of PDF objects correctly

Re: PDF Import

Hi Jacob, AFAIK, that's what goes on behind the scenes. FM doesn't support all of the PDF (imaging) functionality, such as live transparency, and still outputs via an outdated postscript printer model (i.e. the Adobe PDF printer instance). It has to first flatten the content to be able to

RE: PDF Import

Hi Arnis Fortunately, properly prepared EPS is not that bad at all. As you very well know I'm pretty happy with PostScript :-) Anyway, in graphics production of year 2013 it's no less than *very* easy - by accident or lack of knowledge - to mix an unsuitable PDF into a FM-workflow, e.g. a

PDF Import

Framers, I've been running several automated tasks through FrameMaker. All image formats convert to PDF fairly quickly EXCEPT PDF files. If I import pages of separate PDF files into a FrameMaker document, converting to PDF slows to a crawl. I'm curious why this happens. The latest try is a

PDF Import (Brad Anderson)

I have the same issues with printing referenced pdf files. Printing slows down to a crawl and takes for ever. I use FM 10 and 11. For some reason it seems version 7 does a better job. I have tried all sorts of tricks to no avail. Regards Bj?rn

PDF Import

Brad, FM converts (on the fly) PDFs to EPS internally, so if you have a lot of them (I'm assuming one of your PatternStream catalogues) and you don't have your TEMP area on a big fast SSD, it's going to spend a lot of time writing out and reading back in temp files. All I can suggest (though

PDF Import

Hi Arnis, Is it really true that FM makes an internal PDF-> EPS conversion? If "true" that?s very interesting. As to my knowledge Adobe unceasingly discourage the use of EPS when PDF is available because the PostScript imaging model can't render a quite substantial amount of PDF objects

PDF Import

Hi Jacob, AFAIK, that's what goes on behind the scenes. FM doesn't support all of the PDF (imaging) functionality, such as live transparency, and still outputs via an outdated postscript printer model (i.e. the Adobe PDF printer instance). It has to first flatten the content to be able to