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Arnis Gubins
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Arnis Gubins
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Nov 16, 2007
09:32 AM
Tim,
The RGB colour issue is probably coming from an indexed PNG (or other
indexed image file) used somewhere in your document. Convert it to an
RGB format to get rid of the recurring colour definitions (these
happen all of the time and shouldn't be the crash issue).
Did you install the Adobe PDF printer instance that came with FM8 or
one from the full Acrobat (Pro, 3D) products? What is your system
default printer set as?
Did any of the tables originate from a Word document somewhere along
the line?
Have you tried a MIF-wash on your document (save to MIF, open MIF and
resave as binary)?
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Nov 09, 2007
11:22 AM
Can you supply the exact text of the memory-related error messages.
How much actual RAM and free disk space do you have? If you're pasting
graphics, then FM needs lots of space in its TEMP area in order to
create the working files (a jpg can expand drastically - FM needs to
work with the expanded graphic to display it).
Have checked through Adobe's FM general troubleshooting technote
(http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=331964) for
some possible scenarios?
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Sep 21, 2007
07:06 AM
Fei Min,
FWIW, you already can turn off any features that you don't need via
the config files (found in the fminit\configui folder) - this
includes standard menu items, context menus, keyboard shortcuts,
toolbar items, etc. For example, try the View > Menus > Quick option
and check out the GUI after that's applied.
The online manual "Customizing_Frame_products.pdf" describes how to
modify the GUI. Also, Shlomo Perets' ToolBarPlus Express available for
a nominal fee at http://www.microtype.com/resources.html, is an
excellent starting point to give you a customization environment.
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Jul 31, 2007
02:55 PM
Thomas,
>I usually only read these forums through the Newsgroups interface, in which case you don't see any explanation of or introduction to new sub-forums. So I visited the forums' web interface and read the introduction. Here are my comments:
Unfortunately, the forum software doesn't send the forum description
through the nntp: channel.
I am aware of your sentiments on the "Feature request" issue, and I do
make the marketing and product management and support folks at Adobe
aware of these forums at every opportunity.
Adobe already has a direct route for feature requests (as indicated in
the forum description) for all products. Any of the Adobe product
"Feature Request" forums are in the same spirit as this one - it's
just that some Forums have more active participation of Adobe
employees (on their own time), but that doesn't mean that nobody from
the FM team will read these postings. One can hope that some ideas
here will strike a chord and be acted upon.
Please also don't discount the various plug-in and script developers
that may pick up and run with any of the ideas presented here to
provide all of us with something to enhance the product or our
workflows.
All I hope for is that we can make the best of the opportunities that
are presented to us.
Arnis Gubins
Forum host
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Jul 30, 2007
02:06 PM
And the honour of the first posting goes to Art!
Now what was that old adage about being careful about one wishes
for... ;-)
I echo Art's sentiment that it would be really nice if many of the
tools that Adobe have in their other products/suites would get
integrated with or into FM, such as Bridge for graphics handling,
direct PDF output for print production to by-pass the Windows GDI,
common colour libraries, etc.
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Jul 30, 2007
11:45 AM
*** This thread is now closed ***
With the release of FrameMaker 8.0, a specific wish list sub-forum has been setup. Please go to:
FrameMaker Wish List
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Jun 06, 2007
10:41 AM
Sherman,
That's always worked. What's happened with the 8.1 Distiller is that
the default mode will no longer allow the postscript file being
distilled to access other external files (TimeSavers pulls in other
.ps files to do its magic stuff). One needs to configure Distiller to
start with the -F switch, which can't be done using Save As PDF (it
always calls Distiller without the switch).
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May 25, 2007
06:22 AM
Harald,
Excellent points.
FYI, this thread will be closed and permanently archived when a) the
new version of FM is released or b) the Forums are switched over to
their new version, whichever comes first.
At that point there will be a Feature Request sub-forum created where
the requests will be by topic instead of one long thread as it is
currently.
Arnis Gubins
Forum host
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May 21, 2007
05:11 PM
Anna,
You might want to check out Scott Prentice's MarkerTools plug-in at
http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php
This plug-in allows you to use FM variables as building blocks within
marker text at the file or book level.
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Apr 13, 2007
07:52 AM
Mike,
It makes sense. With the current version, you need to use the
micropositioning commands to align the superscripts and subscripts.
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Mar 30, 2007
07:22 AM
FYI, starting with Acrobat 8, one can directly convert DWG to PDF. Right-click on a DWG file and select "Convert to PDF". You can even do multiple drawings to combine into a PDF.
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Feb 23, 2007
01:39 PM
You might get an appropriate response if you ask in the main FM forum
instead of burying this in a discussion about suggestions and
corrections to the FAQ items.
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Feb 09, 2007
07:03 PM
Thomas,
FWIW, speaking from experience with the Save As route, I've seen
random "phunnies" in the final PDFs (such as the missing fonts
issues), a bigger .tps file than the .ps file generated from directly
printing to file, slower throughput in both the intermediate
postscript file creation and actual distilling (probably tied in to
the larger .tps file) and other differences from what the joboptions
should have been.
There should not have been any differences in the file sizes being
created if the same printer instance/configuration was actually being
used. I also see this on some automated runs with Miramo. It's not
consistent either - sometimes it works fine and then the next run, the
process is considerably slower and there are dropouts in the PDFs.
So far, manually printing to a ps file and distilling always seems to
work without any issues.
Your mileage may vary.
Arnis
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Nov 30, 2006
05:20 PM
Rebecca,
Riley's correct. It is an Acrobat issue - Distiller can't overwrite a
file that Acrobat has open. The FM "Save As PDF" function always
invokes the Distiller - it's just done silently in the background.
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Nov 21, 2006
10:21 PM
Sherman,<br /><br />No need. FM doesn't change the string that you enter in the marker.<br /><br />When using the "message URL" marker (Goto URL from the hypertext),<br />your entries are passed through verbatim to the postscript as the URI<br />(uniform resource identifier) for the /ANN pdfmark. If you examine the<br />intermediate postscript file, you'll find that FM properly takes a<br />"\\adobe\test" and enters it as "\\\\adobe\\test" in the URI portion.<br />The double backslash is the escaped version of a backslash required<br />for proper parsing (otherwise a single backslash will treat adjacent<br />characters as some special symbols).<br /><br />The problem is at the Acrobat end interpreting this string. If no Base<br />URL is supplied for the document, Acrobat assumes<br />file:///<drive>|<folder>/\\adobe\test, where the drive and folders are<br />the location of the open pdf file. However, if you enter a "file:///"<br />for the Base URL of the document, then the links are correctly<br />interpreted as "\\adobe\test".<br /><br />You can automatically add the base URL using the /PUT pdfmark<br />operator, e.g.<br /><br /> [ {Catalog} << /URI << /Base (file:///) >> >> /PUT pdfmark<br /><br />Hint: you put that command in a postscript text frame on your first<br />page.<br /><br />Sorry, but I don't know what the supplied Webworks does with the FM<br />hypertext, as I never use this particular tool.
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Nov 20, 2006
09:51 AM
Sherman,
For crying out loud, the Adobe PDF printer instance is a postscript
printer!!!! Don't you even read what other people have written. I
simply said to print to file (or the PDF port) with the distiller
printer instance (aka Adobe PDF). How on earth you get that I was
suggesting the Save As route is totally beyond me.
To print to a physical postscript printer, you use the postscript
printer instance for the device. The same goes for creating PDF. The
only difference is that the output from the PDF process is electronic
whereas from postscript printers it's a sheet of paper. What you're
saying is implying something like that it's ok to use the postscript printer instance for a Lintotronic 300 to produce output for a Xerox DocuColor 8000. Not!
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Nov 17, 2006
08:43 AM
Sherman,
Isn't that exactly what was recommended?
Also, please refrain from suggesting inappropriate devices for
postscript generation for PDFs. The only printer instance required for
generating postscript for PDF creation is the one supplied for
Distiller. Using other device specifications can lead to problems for
imageable areas, fonts, colour and transparency, postscript level,
resolution, etc.
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Nov 16, 2006
11:12 AM
Scott,
Save as PDF is not really reliable before version 7.0 of Distiller.
Print to file (or hook your Distiller printer instance to the PDF
port) and manually distill. You can use the Distiller "Watched
Folders" options to automate the process.
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Nov 08, 2006
10:38 AM
FWIW, Rick Quatro has developed a plug-in that does this. Contact info
via http://www.frameexpert.com
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Nov 07, 2006
01:55 PM
That's already been addressed to a workable degree in the FM7.2p158 patch.
From the readme file:
*****************
#1199273
CodePoint Correction:
We have added support for few missing characters on Cyrillic, Central European and Baltic Codepages for Windows.
Following is the list of characters added with their corresponding shortcuts.
Character with Code CodePage ANSI Code
Shortcut Standard Name
Hex Unicode Code
0403 Ѓ \xa1 Windows1251(Cyrillic) 0129
Control+q ! CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GJE
040F Џ \xde Windows1251(Cyrillic ) 0143
Control+q ^ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZHE
0452 ђ \xdf Windows1251(Cyrillic) 0144
Control+q _ CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE
045C ќ \xfd Windows1251(Cyrillic) 0157
Control+q } CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJE
0179 Ź \xde Windows 1250(Central Europe) 0143
Control+q ^ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
0165 ť \xfd Windows 1250(Central Europe) 0157
Control+q } LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
00B8 ¸ \xde Windows 1257(Baltic) 0143
Control+q ^ CEDILLA
00AF ¯ \xfd Windows 1257(Baltic) 0157
Control+q } MACRON
You can also type the characters in a document by using their ANSI number:
1. Press Num Lock to make the numeric keypad active.
2. Hold down the Alt key while typing the ANSI number (including the leading zero) using the keys on the numeric keypad.
You need to use an appropriate font to display these characters correctly. For using characters from, lets say, Cyrillic code page, you needs to use the corresponding cyrillic font, e.g., Times New Roman CYR.
Please note that we havent added full support for these codepages. We have just enabled these codepoints. You can enter these characters in a document and use them only for display/print and pdf creation. You however still cant use these characters for pdf bookmarks or save as HTML or save as XML. These codepoints are also not supported with WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition 8.0 and for RTF Import/Export. You cant copy/paste these characters to/from other applications. Also, there is no dictionary or spell-check support for the languages supported by these code pages.
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Oct 06, 2006
07:15 AM
Avril,<br /><br />Use series numbers in your autonumbering. These are single characters<br />at the start of the auto-number followed by a colon, e.g.<br /><br />C:<$chapnum>-<n+> for a chapter plus section number<br />F:<$chapnum>-<n+> for a figure number<br /><br />These series numbers work independently of each other. See your FM<br />Manual or online help for more details.
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Aug 29, 2006
12:06 PM
Here's a more recent 2006 reference:
http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2006-January/000540.html
You can do your research via Google or other search engines to go
through the various FM lists, you know?
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Aug 29, 2006
06:37 AM
Sherman,
See
http://lists.techwr-l.com/framers/archives/0308/framers-0308-00214.html
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Aug 28, 2006
06:48 PM
adobe1,
Installing both an Acrobat Reader and a version of Acrobat (especially
if they are different version) is a surefire way to mangle your
installation - as per the advice of Dov Isaacs that Rebecca mentioned.
You're going to have to uninstall both the Reader and Acrobat and then
re-install only Acrobat.
Also, with FM, as Sherman says, you need to install each update in
order. FM's updates are not cumulative patches like Microsoft's
service packs.
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Aug 25, 2006
10:25 AM
Bernd,
Interesting. Thanks for confirming this.
Yes, you're quite correct that the PS file creation in FM is dependent
upon the system resources.
As far as the difference between printing to file + manually
distilling and the Save As route goes, they are both functionally
identical. The only difference is that the Save As route assumes that
the printer instance is hooked to the PDF port, which triggers a
sequence of events in the background. This process prints the FM files
to a postscript file using the same Adobe PDF printer instance (PS
files are labeled with a .tps extension in this case), calls
Distiller with the joboption specified in the printer dialogue,
deposits the PDF in the specified location, deletes the .tps file when
Distiller has completed creating the pdf and then closes Distiller.
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Aug 25, 2006
09:30 AM
Bernd,
Good sleuthing! Just as a test for your empirical workaround, when you
have the text dropouts, have you tried simply re-booting instead of
deleting the font cache and then rebooting? This would remove one more
variable and add more weight to a possible workaround that others
could use.
AFAIK, there shouldn't be any dependence on the font cache with the
distilling process as you have to explicitly specify where Distiller
has to look for the fonts, i.e. Distiller doesn't use the system
resources to let it know what is available.
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Aug 24, 2006
07:34 PM
The upgrade price to FM7.2 from any earlier version (including 7.0 &
7.1) is $199.
What exact error messages did you get from the other Distiller?
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Aug 24, 2006
02:57 PM
Sherman,
>In the Adobe PDF printer, Adobe has created and maintains their PPD, but has no actural printer.
It's a VIRTUAL printer. It doesn't have to be a physical device!
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Aug 24, 2006
09:35 AM
The process of making a booklet (i.e. pages printed out in a specific order so that the sheets can be folded and stapled together) is called imposition. It is usually best done after the fact on a PDF file. There are a number of utilities that can create booklets from PDFs (as a bonus the tools aren't specific to FrameMaker) or they act as printer drivers do this during the output stage to PDF.
Some of the PDF-based tools out there for this include:
Quite Imposing at http://www.quite.com
PDFSnake at http://www.pdfsnake.com
cutePDF at http://www.cutepdf.com/
PDFenhancer at http://www.apagoinc.com/prod_home.php?prod_id=2
CheapImpostor at http://www.cheapimpostor.com/
dots Pilot 2 http://www.dots-software.com/pilot_2.php
There are some printer drivers that will create booklets. However, they all do not support postscript in most cases, so if you have EPS or PDF graphics, you shouldn't use them.
FinePrint at http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html
ClickBook at http://www.bluesquirrel.com/clickbook/
CMYK PDF Creator (supports postscript and provides colour correction from FM) from Grafikhuset at
http://www.grafikhuset.net/international/chameleon/chameleon_cmykcreator_features.htm
Finally, there used to be a plug-in for FM available from Mekon called mPose (or something like that), but it seems to have disappeared from their website. See http://www.mekon.com
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Aug 24, 2006
08:17 AM
1adobe,
Unfortunately this thread has gotten side-tracked a bit on perhaps an
unrelated issue.
You're specific problem seems to stem from the fact that the
postscript load command is coming back as undefined. From the PS
reference manual, "load":
>searches for key in each dictionary on the dictionary stack, starting with the topmost
>(current) dictionary. If key is found in some dictionary, load pushes the associated
>value on the operand stack; otherwise, an undefined error occurs.
The values popped off the stack seem to suggest that some id's in the
FM document aren't all sent across properly in the PDF.
Check your setting for the Links under Format > Document > PDF
Setup... Links tab. The "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs"
option should be enabled. Otherwise FM drops a number of id's *it*
thinks aren't needed in writing the output and you may have references
to these missing ones elsewhere.
You can create your PDF either using the Save As PDF option or
printing to a postscript file and distilling. These all follow the
same route if the "Adobe PDF" printer instance is used in all cases.
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