Re: PDF problem: document info

["Jason Aiken" <jason.aiken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We used to do exactly the same thing in FrameMaker-before-5.5.6. It worked quite well. By the time we implemented it, tested it, validated, and made it public in our templates, we found it didn't work in FM 5.5.6 and had to purchase TimeSavers to get it back in. At least in FM 6.0 Adobe made some effort to allow the user to input these items, although now I wish there was a way to use variables in the fields. Without using variables or master page code frames, we should at least get an option in Import > Formats to import PDFmark commands so they can easily be shared from project to project like they used to.

Has anyone else found an easy way to manage this without TimeSavers in FM 6.0? I'm just wondering if anyone has found a cool workaround to share their PDFmark code between FM 6.0 files.

Best regards,
Jason

p.s. I know it's hard to get the time and funds necessary to pursue TimeSavers, but the software and manual are well worth it just for the PDFmark code modules, behavioral characteristics, exercises in FM, and documentation of version limits to functionality. I know it's sad that one has to purchase plug-ins just to get FM 5.5.6 to work as you'd expect, but until Adobe hires or consults seriously with Shlomo onto their FrameMaker team, his course and software will continue to add enhanced functionality and earn admirably, IMHO.

>>> Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@twelfthnight.com> 04/24/01 12:32PM >>>
Hello Thomas,

[The situation -- how to modify the Doc Info fields in Frame 5.5 so that 
the resulting PDF picks up proper Title and Author data. ]

I have a client in a similar situation. The solution I provided does use 
special PostScript Code text frames, but with the use of variables, there's 
no hand-tailoring; they're just pasted in whole.

The solution is to put a PostScript Code text frame on each title page, and 
use Frame variables to pick up the document title and author info. The code 
is replicated below. Note that text in < > is user-supplied:

    [ /Title (<TITLE_VARIABLE_HERE>)
    /Author (<AUTHOR_VARIABLE_HERE>)
    /DOCINFO
    pdfmark


For those who haven't used these PostScript Code text frames, the secret 
sauce is:

o   To create -- add a regular text frame, enter the code, change the text 
color to white (i.e., make it invisible), and then change the properties of 
the text frame to PostScript Code.

o   To edit the text -- reverse the above steps.

I wasn't sure the variable would work, but it does. Also, we put the text 
frame above the other information on the page, though I didn't test whether 
this was necessary. (There's docinfo stuff in an EPS logo at the bottom of 
the same page -- Catalog was picking this up as the doc's title, etc., 
prior to our use of Code frames.)

HTH,

Tom Neuburger

The Masters Series: FrameMaker 6
www.twelfthnight.com 



Thomas Michanek wrote, regarding Frame 5.5:

>... Is there any
>way to control the title and author, or to get consistent
>results, without editing in Acrobat 4.05a afterwards, or
>using special PostScript text frames in FM?
>(And YES, I realize we should have identical system set-ups...)
>
   


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