FrameMaker 10 Save as PDF and landscape pages

[Guest]

Using FrameMaker 10 on Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit system - When I use the Save as PDF function on a book containing both portrait and landscape pages, the landscape pages are clipped to portrait mode. If I print to Adobe PDF, the page orientation is correct in the PDF, however, no bookmarks are generated. If I check the Convert CMYK colorsto RGB setting in the PDF Setup for Selected Files dialog box, then the page orientation in the PDF is correct, and the bookmarks are generated as they were in FrameMaker 8.

Is there a method to this madness?

[Bob_Niland]

I always do landscape pages as rotated content on normal portrait pages, and don't have FM10, but I can toss out a couple of comments that may or may not be breadcrumbs leading to the answer.

First off, what version of Acrobat Pro, if installed?

Using FrameMaker 10 on Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit system ...

That is a supported configuration for FM10, but unlike the others (VIsta SP1 and later), XP/32 has only RGB mode inside the Windows GDI. Any CMYK passed to it gets converted to RGB by Microsoft. And I'm assuming that the legacy GDI API even accepted CYMK data. My experience with CYMK on older Windows has been limited to the general impossibility of getting colors to match.

If I check the Convert CMYK colors to RGB setting in the PDF  Setup for Selected Files dialog box, then the page orientation in the  PDF is correct, and the bookmarks are generated as they were in  FrameMaker 8.

That presumably causes the CMYK conversion to be performed by Adobe prior to the GDI calls.

Why color mode should have anything to do with page orientation and bookmark gen is a mystery.

What prompted you to try that setting change?

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And what happens when you print to PostScript file, and then Distill that?

[Guest]

I have Acrobat 8 Pro. The explanation of the RGB mode with XP makes sense. I did not know that. Makes me wonder how Frame 8 was producing all the nice PDFs we have used for the last couple of years.

I tried that setting because I saw others were having issues with that and wondered if there was a relationship between the two. Just a guess.

Printing to a file and distilling it does not produce a PDF at all.

Thanks for your help.

[Arnis Gubins]

David,

This is a known bug [to Adobe] in FM10 when using the CMYK route for Save As PDF. Use the Convert CMYK to RGB option to produce (somewhat) usable PDFs (unless you happen to enjoy lots of frustration and pain ).