Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding

2015-02-20 Thread Davis, David
Lin, As far as I recall, modern versions of Adobe Reader autogenerate the PDF bookmark pane and thumbnails on the fly if you ask them to, so if megabytes are really that tight for you, you could probably ditch them anyway? David Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:16:20 -0500 From: Lin Sims

FM 12 and Acrobat on same machine

2015-02-20 Thread Denis Daly
Good morning all, I am hoping to add Adobe Acrobat to my FM 12 installation soon. I was just wondering about best practice regarding this. I assume it is recommended to use Acrobat rather than say a cheaper PDF editor , like Foxit? Also, could someone explain what happens when Acrobat is co-in

RE: FM 12 and Acrobat on same machine

2015-02-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
When FM is installed standalone, a "headless" PDF Creator version is installed to be able to generate PDFs out of FM. This can sometimes clobber existing installs of Acrobat. Adding it after the fact should replace the "headless" version, but if it fails, then uninstalling everything, installing

Re: FM 12 and Acrobat on same machine

2015-02-20 Thread Ken Poshedly
Jeff is right-on, as far as I'm concerned. Definitely install Acrobat before installing FM (making sure to not install the FM PDF creation thingy on top of your existing Acrobat installation). My own question is if my company should bump up to FM 12 from FM 11 if our deliverables are only pdf f

WAS: FM 12 and Acrobat on same machine

2015-02-20 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Well, one of the main things I’m looking for in going from FM11 to FM12 is the fix for the fatal crashes that I get from using the scroll wheel on my mouse in conjunction with the xrefs panel. That’s #1 for me – I usually blow up once a day with that one. The second feature that I’m looking forw

RE: FM 12 and Acrobat on same machine

2015-02-20 Thread Craig Ede
It's only $400 a pop to upgrade from FM11 to FM12, isn't it? And if your $1000 estimate includes an upgrade for Acrobat, then you might as well just go on and pop the $1200 to upgrade to TCS 5, getting Acrobat and a lot more. (Actually, you can get TCS5 for $1200 upgrading from as far back as FM