FM as PDF gold standard RE: PDF query

2014-10-18 Thread Craig Ede
Not to burst anybody's bubble, but even back in the fondly remembered "Golden Age of FrameMaker" (circa 5.5-7.0) PDF could be faulty. I had dropped captions there was no explanation for in tabloid printouts heavy in graphics. Pretty simple stuff, a set of 16 graphics each inhabiting an eight of a s

Re: FM as PDF gold standard RE: PDF query

2014-10-18 Thread Mike Wickham
Craig, It sounds like you got hit with the Windows XP bug that caused intermittent, unexplained dropping of text in PDFs. As I recall, the problem was with the MS Postscript processor. There was a Microsoft hotfix issued to deal with it. At the time, the problem and fix were pretty well known

Re: PDF query

2014-10-18 Thread Robert Lauriston
At least from FM6 on, I had zero problems with Save as PDF so long as Distiller / Adobe PDF was selected as the printer and I used the same file name as the .book I was saving. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Mike Wickham wrote: > Actually, Frame print to PDF was the gold standard. Save as PDF w

RE: PDF query

2014-10-18 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Same here with "Save as PDF", except that with FM 12, it seems that I also need to select the "RGB" checkbox option to make it work correctly. The "CMYK" option does _not_ work properly. I will see if I can find the test documents I sent to Adobe and post them here later ... Z Robert Lauristo