How to save structured FM with cross-references as PDF with distiller?

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Hello,We have installed FrameMaker 11 in our company and all works properly except when we try to save as PDF. It appears that it works, but suddenly the Distiller 5.0 shows a message saying that "the specified Distiller joboptions file doesn’t exist". We can´t find the origin of the problem, so we can't save the structured document as PDF keeping the cross-references active.Thank you all

Arnis Gubins · Answer

Distiller 5.0 is quite old and uses a different location for storing the joboptions file from what FM11 is expecting with newer versions. [IIRC, it was around Acrobat 7 or 8 that the location changed].

If you're on a Win7 system, then you could try creating the following folder and populate your joboptions there:

C:\Users\<user login name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings, where <user login name> refers to your Windows system login name.

However, it is highly recommended to upgrade your Acrobat version. Also, if you installed FM11 using all of the default options, then PDFCreator would have also been installed possibly "bunny stomping all over" (corrupting) your existing Distiller version.

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