Re: FrameMaker's next release

[Jeanette Feldhousen <jeanette_feldhousen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Lester C. Smalley" wrote:
> FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML _are_ my tools of choice, but without a
> UNIX version of Acrobat (Distiller specifically) it is rather annoying
> to produce PDF files from them.
> 
> I have to print to PS, move the files to a different platform, distill,
> and then move them back.  This is NOT in any sense an automatic workflow
> process, which is the goal.
> 
> Now, if Adobe is intending to offer the full Acrobat for UNIX again,
> not merely the reader . . .
> 
Well, you can try the solution we've come up with (YMMV, of course), but
you've gotta have at least one PC available.

Set up your PC so that you can map UNIX directories to a drive (I use 
Exceed, but you can probably use other things). Run distiller on your
PC, and set up a watched folder in distiller, using a directory on a
UNIX workstation. Then you just have to move the PS file on UNIX into
your watched folder, and move the PDF file to wherever you want it after
distiller runs on the PC.

I know that this is not going to work in all environments, but it's
working
pretty well for me. Obviously, you have to have a Windows PC and you
have
to keep distiller running on it at all times.

--Jeanette

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