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Marco van den Biggelaar
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January 21, 2009
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Save as PDF

  • January 21, 2009
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Hi All,

I'm working with Framemaker 8.0p277 on a Windows XP machine.

Often I read answers that one should not use the Save as PDF option. Instead one should print to a Postscript file and distill that file.
But why is the first option is less better then the second? Can someone please explain this for my understanding.

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Marco
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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    January 21, 2009
    Though Adobe supposedly fixed the Save as PDF function in FrameMaker 7.0-- it was badly broken before that-- a lot of people still have problems with it. On the frameusers.com listserv, there are often problems reported that are fixed merely by printing to the AdobePDF printer, instead of using Save as PDF.

    I've never heard anyone say why Save as PDF is problematic, but Adobe does warn against having more than one instance of any combination of Acrobat, Adobe Reader, or the Distiller that comes with FrameMaker on any one computer. Installing/uninstalling any one of those can blow out bits of the other. And that may be the reason Save as PDF is problematic for some.

    You may want to consider installing the free SetPrint plugin. It sets Adobe PDF as the default printer for FrameMaker, without changing the default printer elsewhere in Windows. This makes it very easy to create PDFs, simply by choosing Print. It has the added advantage of preventing unexpected reflow in documents caused by editing them with one printer set as the default, but printing to a different printer. You can find it here:

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