RE: graphic rotation problem

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Caryn,

For better or for worse, yes it does matter what font is being used, if in
fact you are creating an arrow with text. You really didn't make that clear
in your postings. Arrows can be "drawn" in FrameMaker or created via
keying in characters from various symbol or dingbat fonts. In order to
allow the members of the list to assist, we pretty much need to know how
you created the arrows.

A "generic PostScript printer" is not a valid driver/PPD combination
for purposes of generation of PostScript for creation of PDF files via
the Distiller. Assuming that you don't have the full copy of Acrobat
installed, but only the Distiller 4.05 that comes with FrameMaker 6,
you need to create a PostScript printer driver instance "to file" (i.e.,
the FILE: port) using the Distiller PPD file (in the XTRAS subdirectory
of the Distiller installation). You create the PostScript printer driver
instance via the Adobe Universal Windows PostScript Driver Installer 1.0.6,
downloadable from Adobe's web site.

With regards to embedding fonts, if you are currently not aware of what
that concept is, I would most strongly encourage you to do some reading
with regards to Acrobat and PDF files. Font embedding is a very key 
concept in the production of PDF files that can be reliably displayed
and printed by their recipients (i.e., not you on your own system).

        - Dov


At 6/25/2002 08:45 AM, Caryn Drovie wrote:
>Im not sure which font I am using..does that matter? How can I check the
>font for an arrow?
>To distill a .ps, I am selecting File>Print and selecting print to file box
>and saving to my temp file as C:\temp\* and changing my printer to generic
>postscript printer. When my .ps file is saved I am double-clicking on that
>file to create my .pdf file.
>What is embedding fonts?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isaacs@adobe.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 10:40 AM
>To: Caryn Drovie
>Cc: framers@FrameUsers.com
>Subject: Re: graphic rotation problem
>
>
>Unfortunately, you don't give us much to go on.
>What font are you using to depict arrows with?
>How are producing that PostScript file that you
>are distilling? And what job options are you
>using for distillation? Are you embedding fonts?
>
>        - Dov
>
>
>At 6/25/2002 06:28 AM, Caryn Drovie wrote:
>>Hi framers,
>>Nobody responded yesterday so I am sending my email again today.
>>Can you help me?
>>I am using Frame 6.0 and windows 2000.  I am also distilling my frame file
>>to a .ps file and then to a .pdf file.  Some of my arrows in my .pdf file
>>are going the wrong direction but are fine in my frame file.  Why is that?
>> Another writer asked me if these are the ones that I previously rotated
>>and I replied that I might have done that.  But, does that matter?  I
>>thought the distiling would line up all my graphics.  Is this a problem
>>with frame?  What our the possible workarounds? Yes, I use Specical anchor
>>frames and some arrows are in the frames and some are outside of the
>>frames.
>>Thanks for any help


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