Re: Saving as PDF

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Monaco wrote:

>Subject: Saving as pdf
>From: jmonaco@unet.net (Monaco, James)
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:23:05 -0400
>X-Message-Number: 86
>
>Framers,
>
>Two questions:
>
>(1) Does anyone know which printer description file (if any)
>Framemaker uses when you save as PDF?

Frame doesn't use a PPD. The PPD data gets copied into the
"printer instance" when a PostScript "printer" is created.
So when you print, you get the PPD associated with the chosen
printer instance.

It's unclear to me which "printer" Frame uses when you Save
As PDF. In most cases, an appropriate printer seems to be
chosen, but in some cases not. It would be interesting to
hear someone from Frame discuss just what happens (or should
happen) when saving as PDF -- just how does a "printer" get
selected? Also, does the underlying logic of this selection
vary from version to version of Frame?

Dov Isaacs at Adobe feels strongly that the only way to control
this process is to print to file using a printer you select --
ideally the Acrobat Distiller "printer".

>(2) Nearly all the time (but not always) when we save as pdf, the
>distiller refuses to launch and we get an error message. The
>postscript files are there and distill OK after, but it isn't
>automatic. Anyone know why?

I would think the error could come from a number of sources.
Why not print to file, then distill?

Tom Neuburger

Mastering FrameMaker
Foundation: Building Sentence Skills
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author%3DThomas%20Neuburger/>


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