FM7.2 bugs/issues, pointers -- request for feedback

[Shlomo Perets <microtype@xxxxxxxxx>]

I added a section for FM7.2 in the List of FM Bugs/Issues [
http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html ] and also updated the FAQ with
items related to FM7.2+XML [
http://www.microtype.com/FrameMakerFAQ.html ]

If you use the shipping version of FM7.2 and can report FM7.2-specific
bug fixes or bugs/issues, your feedback is welcome and can benefit
other users.

One item that may be of interest to PDF producers: prior to FM 7.1,
importing formats with document properties turned on reset the File
Info values (File > File Info) as well, so that any file-specific
information (such as document title), was overwritten with the
imported value. This was finally fixed in FM7.1, but the fix has been
removed from FM7.2, so that we are back to square one on this issue.
The linked Adobe tech note suggests that the FM7.1 behavior was
incorrect and that it was fixed in FM7.2, but my opinion is that
document metadata (Title, Subject, Keywords) is document-specific and
should under no circumstances be reset when importing formats from
another document. Otherwise, it is too easy for authors to rewrite
these fields (typed manually), and you end up with PDFs that have
generic titles (which are worse than not having any title, as
demonstrated in http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html )
Incidentally, some of the PDFs of press releases related to FM7.2 were
shown in web search results with the title of "[Click and type Your
Name]"


Shlomo Perets
Training AT MicroType com

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