PDFs distilled from Framemaker showing up with tick marks where tabs are

Having the same issue in 2017. My latest FM update was about six weeks ago. I will search for the patch that someone mentioned. I have had dashes showing up in my PDF where there are empty lines. I went through all the lines three times and made sure that if they were empty lines -that I tagged them with the 'body' tag. This has helped alleviate about 90% of my dash lines that show up. As for the person using bullets and this still happens on the left side of the document, not sure what you would try. You might put the bullets in a white text box and see if that would help. 

Hi all,

I have tested this and can confirm it. It seems that it happens when you save as PDF with RGB option.

Please try changing to CMYK. With CMYK I was not able to reproduce it. This might work for you as an intermediate workaround.

We are looking closer into it.

Stefan Gentz

Neat (not!)

I never use distiller explicitly (I use File>Print and print to the Adobe PDF printer, which links in the distillation).

So... I figured I'd see if the problem occurs this way as well. Same problem occurs as of FrameMaker version 13.0.5.547.

I think until the bug is straightened out that you have to manage things a bit more manually (overrides).

• In the original post's example, "03", "a", and "b" all have a tab at the beginning of the lines to manage indentation. This tab can be removed by setting a paragraph format with indentation at the required position, so no tab-tick will appear.
• In the line between 03 and 03a, there are two additional tab-ticks to position the "(" characters on the right side, but the 'a' and 'b' lines do not show a tab-tick between the text and the "(" character. I think that's because the format style has been explicitly modified to not be underlined. So, in the line between 03 and 03a, underlining should be turned off except for the "(".
• In the 'glitch' link that bob references, the tab-ticks appear when dealing with auto-numbering. In that case, the 'solution' would be to remove the "\t" from the autonumber format, and then manually enter a tab at the beginning of each row. This would obviously result in a tab-tick in the output. So... after entering the tab character, make sure to select it and manually change the format style to remove the underlining.

To summarize... use paragraph formats to manage indentation (don't manually tab for paragraph level indentation), and if using an autonumber paragraph format that has underlining applied (in the Paragraph Designer Default Font tab), make sure to select any tab characters that are manually entered and deselect Format>Style>Underline.

We have the same Problem with our FM Datas after updating the Company to FM2015.

Small underlines at every tab after underlined text.

These Problem does not appear in FM11 and FM12 distilling Data to PDF.

Here is a update or bugfix from Adobe needed.....

Looks like it's the same [unresolved] problem reported here:
Glitch when printing to PDF

If I were dealing with it, I'd probably try to find some way to more thoroughly terminate the underlinings before the tabs - some sort of {near}zero-width invisible character perhaps. That might not be possible here, as it looks like the red/underline is generated by a Condition Code.