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Frame 2022 not converting landscape pages to PDF properly

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August 13, 2024
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My team has recently converted to FrameMaker 2022. Our version is up to date, but when I convert a document containing landscape pages to PDF, the header and footer text on the landscape pages becomes jumbled (rotated). Is there a setting I can tweak to correct that?

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Correct answer monrocks12

I'm not sure I understand your answer. In the FrameMaker file, the header and footer text is rotated. The transfer to PDF is somehow rotating it further. The header and footer on the landscape page is the same size as the header/footer text on the portrait pages, and those headers and footers look fine in the PDF.

I found the answer. Apparenlty, Frame 2022 defaults to not using Distiller for conversion. As soon as I checked the setting to use Distiller, the problem resolved. Thanks, everyone!

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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Can you post pix of the resulting jumbled pages?

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

monrocks12Author

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The content on the page looks as it should, but the headers and footers look like this:

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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Not a lot to go on with that pic, but if it were my doc, I'd create a new master page and manually assign the new master page to page164.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Bob_Niland

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Presumably, this was working in the prior version.
What former version of FM did you update from? If old enough (pre-Publish pathway), the new .sts files may be playing a stealth role.

Are the landscape pages in a separate .fm file, or just different Master Pages in one or more otherwise portrait .fm files?
Are the landscape pages the same size as the portrait pages?

Are you rendering via: Save-as-PDF, Print-to-PDF, Publish or Print-to.ps&Distill?

Any of these might need a look:
◊ File🞃Print Setup…
◊ PDF Job Options (via various menus)
◊ File🞃Publish default or selected .sts file
These can silently conflict with each other.

monrocks12Author

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We updated from 2019.
The landscape pages are different master pages in otherwise portrait files.
Have tried all three methods: Save As and Publish result in the error. Print to PDF does not, but it can sometimes afftect in-document links.

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FrameMaker-dk

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That sounds odd. Do the pages look ok, when you open the documents? Is it only when you are generating pdf, that the layout goes awry? What is on the landscape pages... imported drawings?

Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk

monrocks12Author

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Everything looks as it should in FrameMaker, but the landscape page headers and footers go awry in the generated PDF. Yes, typically imported images are on the landscape pages, although sometimes it can be large in-document tables.

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