Re: Distiller in FrameMaker 5.5.3 on UNIX

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Betsy,

Unix may not have "watched folders" as a ready-to-use feature, however, it is
a very simple matter to "watch a folder and take action".  It's done all the
time for many different functions.

Jay Smith

Betsy Maaks wrote:
> 
> Mike, Marcus, et al.,
> 
> Marcus, Mike's asking a UNIX question and you gave him a PC response.
> UNIX doesn't have watched folders, so you have to go the Distiller
> route,
> first printing the Frame file as PostScript, then using this Distill
> command with attributes to change the defaults (included 2 more
> attributes
> that help with fonts):
> 
> distill -colordownsample off -maxsubsetpct 99 -embedallfonts on
> <filename>
> 
> If you have grayscale or monochrome images, you'll need to add these
> attributes to the command string:
> 
> -graydownsample off -monodownsample off
> 
> We have discovered that this creates clear and readable images,
> especially
> screen captures.
> 
> Thanks to Ted P. for this info, scaped over the years from various
> sources,
> Betsy Maaks
> reply to: bmaaks@tellabs.com

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