Re: FM, MacOS, & PDF

[Deborah Snavely <dsnavely@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elizabeth,

Recently updated the home office to a G4 w/MacOS 9 and an iBook with
MacOS8.6. I can *only* generate PDF on the iBook because Acrobat 3 doesn't
run under OS9. 

On the other hand, I don't remember needing to do ANYthing weird to print
Frame to PostScript ready to distill, on the iBook. Just select LaserWriter
8 whatever, that came with the OS, and print the *.ps file. Then distill and
voila!

(I haven't EVER used "Save as PDF" because it drives me right past the steps
I've always needed to take to ensure that print vendors or Distiller have
the fonts correct in the resulting document. Namely, Print to File, Embed
All Fonts, set to use Binary instead of default ASCII output, and select
PostScript Level 2.  Rock solid.)

If you don't own a PostScript printer (unlikely, with Frame, but always
possible), look for the Mac/AdobePS driver roughly 8.5 or 8.5.1 and the
Virtual Printer plug-in on the Adobe printer downloadables.

All very scrambled, but you get the idea.

Good luck!
Deborah Snavely


Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:17:47 -0400
From: Elizabeth Ross <beth@vcubed.com>
Subject: FM, MacOS, & PDF

Okay, I give. 

What combo of printer driver do I need to generate PDFs (Acrobat 4.0) on my
Mac (System 8.6) from FrameMaker (v 5.5.6)? I have been on Adobe's site and
my system does not like the Adobe printing libraries it told me to use. I
couldn't find the archives to look there. Printing Lib 8.5.1 doesn't work at
all.

Thanks in advance!
- -- 
Elizabeth Ross
Senior Technical Writer, V3 Semiconductor Corp.
beth@vcubed.com          http://www.vcubed.com
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.

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