RE: Printing from FM 5.5 on Windows-NT

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxx>]

From: Dov Isaacs
> Make sure that the "Print only to file"
> check box isn't checked before you press print from the FrameMaker print
> dialog. Even I have fallen into that one when trying to print documents
> that have been sent to me.

This is actually one of the few times I think the user interface in
FM on UNIX is better than in Windows.
In Windows, you select the Printer at the bottom of the dialog, and
then there's the check box "Print only to file" further up. This is
confusing and not very user-friendly.
On UNIX, the print dialog has a Destination setting: you select
*either* a printer, a PDF file, or a PostScript file. And, when a
PDF file is selected, Generate Acrobat Data is turned on automatically,
and vice versa. There is simply no way to mess up, especially when
"printing" PDF files.

I'm not sure if the print dialog in Windows is dictated by GUI
guidelines from Microsoft, but it could be an idea to redesign it.

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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@iar.se     (Sweden)
http://w1.133.telia.com/~u13304072/framers
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