Re: FrameMaker special spaces appear as squares in Acrobat bookmarks

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

The bug is in FrameMaker which should be filtering out it's own
control characters from the output stream for PDFMark. Acrobat 5
allows arbitrary characters in the bookmarks, including Unicode (although
that is NOT supported from FrameMaker). Unfortunately, when FrameMaker
generates the PDFMark code for the output PostScript stream, it simply
dumps all of its characters, including what normally would be considered
non-printing control characters. And those control characters are considered
undefined characters and the system fonts used by Acrobat to display same
display exactly what they are supposed to, the "notdef" character which is
defined as a box. I believe that Shlomo Perets (MicroType) has a workaround 
with his Timesavers package that eliminates those nasty boxes. 

        - Dov

At 8/6/2001 04:41 PM, Peter Gold wrote:
>Hi, all:
>
>This is cross-posted to framers@FrameUsers.com, framers@omsys.com, and pdf@lists.pdfzone.com.
>
>Here's is the problem:
>
>In FM 5.5.x or 6.0, if a FM paragraph format uses special spaces (em space, en space, non-breaking space, etc.) in its auto-numbering format, distilling with Acrobat 5 Distiller, whether by printing to Acrobat Distiller printer driver and Distilling the .ps file, or with File > Save As > PDF creates square characters in the bookmarks for these numbered paragraph formats. This does not happen with Distiller 4.x, from FM 5.5.x, or FM 6.x. It happens on W98 and WNT.
>
>On W98, using PostScript Printer Driver Version 4.5.1; ADOBEPS4.DRV, ADIST5.PPD.
>
>Here are the steps to recreate the problem:
>
>*** Begin steps:
>
>* In FrameMaker 5.5.x or 6.x, create a new file with File > New > Blank Paper > Portrait. Save it.
>
>* Use Format > Paragraphs > Designer to revise the paragraph autonumbering format for the Numbered paragraph format from <n+>.\t, to Testing\sm<n+>\smtesting\sm.
>
>* In the document, type some body paragraphs intermixed with Numbered paragraphs. Save the file.
>
>* Do File > Save As > Adobe PDF (or File > Print > Acrobat Distiller Printer Driver > Print to File.) Set up the Numbered paragraph tag to be extracted for bookmarks.
>
>* Open the pdf document in Acrobat and look at the bookmarks. If distilled with Distiller 4.x, no problem. If distilled with Distiller 5.x, the \sm (em spaces) appear a squares.
>
>It looks like a bug to me, in Distiller 5.x, as the problem is there when converting both FM 5.5.x and 6.x source files with Acrobat Distiller 5.x.
>
>These workarounds don't fix the problem, just avoid it:
>
>* Uninstall Acrobat 5 and reinstall Acrobat 4, to use the Acrobat 4 Distiller.
>
>* Replace the special spaces with tabs and use tab stops. (See "not a good option," next.)
>
>* Replace the special spaces with plain spaces (not a good option for paragraphs used as headings in TOC and index, as the non-breaking spaces keep the numbers and text together when headings wrap around in TOC or Index.
>
>*** End steps:
>
>Any suggestions or fixes are welcomed.
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter


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