RE: Can you print to PDF with FrameMaker 7?

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you need to do any real work with PDF files and you are
using Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5, you really need Acrobat 5.0.5.
Otherwise, you will always need to create PDF 1.3 (not 1.4)
files, not use the PDF tagging feature, etc.

If you already have Acrobat 4.0x, regardless of whether
or when you upgrade to FrameMaker 7 and its bundled Distiller
5.0.5, I would personally recommend that you upgrade to the
full Acrobat 5.0.5 package.

        - Dov


At 4/10/2002 12:20 PM, Spreadbury, David C. wrote:
>Dov,
>You mention that Frame 7 is bundled with 5.0.5. Does this imply it is not
>necessary to buy Acrobat 5, or upgrade from 4 to 5, as a separate package?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isaacs@Adobe.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:05 PM
>To: Layna Andersen
>Cc: framers@frameusers.com; framers@omsys.com
>Subject: Re: Can you print to PDF with FrameMaker 7?
>
>
>At 4/10/2002 10:07 AM, Layna Andersen wrote:
>>Just wondering...
>>
>>Layna Andersen

*

>You were able to "print to PDF" in every version of FrameMaker
>to date. Simply print to the Acrobat Distiller printer instance
>(Acrobat 4.x and 5.x), the Distiller Assistant printer instance
>(Acrobat 3.x), or to a printer driver instance (to FILE:)
>associated with the Acrobat Distiller PPD file.
>
>If you are asking about the infamous "save as PDF" feature,
>I am glad to report that YES, it will work correctly in FrameMaker 7.
>Members of the FrameMaker development and QE teams are working hard
>to assure that even I am happy with the way it works.
>(FrameMaker 7 will be bundled with Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 that you
>can install if you don't already have Acrobat 5.0.x. That installer
>will indeed automatically create an Acrobat Distiller printer instance.)
>With FrameMaker 7, you should NEVER, repeat NEVER, need to "print to
>FILE" to get PostScript for distillation. It all works as it should!
>The team is doing a great job (and has been very good-natured about
>listening and responding to my incessant bellyaching about little 
>things that needed tweaking!).
>
>        - Dov


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