Re: Framemaker 7.1 with Acrobat 5

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 1/7/2004 09:43 AM, Mary Sutton wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlomo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
><snip>
>FrameMaker's "Save as PDF" was discussed a few times before.
>In my opinion, it is not fully-reliable even with FM7.x, and
>I recommend printing to a .ps and distilling instead (regardless of your
>FM/Acrobat versions).
></snip>
>
>I've tried to find the previous discussion, but my computer keeps locking
>up.  What's the short version of why you shouldn't save to PDF?
>
>- Mary


Shlomo has seen some instances on his systems in which "save as PDF"
causes document re-layout. I believe that his main concern.

We have not seen such behaviour at Adobe, at least under Windows 2000
and XP or on the Macintosh. Following my recommendations on the Adobe 
User-to-User FrameMaker forum and fixing the PPD files to not reference
any font other than Courier should minimize that possibility.
(see <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.ef4dc6a>.)
I certainly consider "save as PDF" safe with FrameMaker 7.x (but NOT
with any earlier versions)!

I am sure Shlomo will weigh in on this ...   (8^)>

        - Dov 


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