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Arnis Gubins
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Arnis Gubins
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‎Aug 24, 2006
07:29 AM
Sherman,
So now you're saying that the postscript generated must use a specific
printer instance in order to be acceptable? If so, then why not simply
use the device/printer instance for the desired output product in the
first place? Why do you think that Adobe created a PPD for the
Distiller printer instance (aka "Adobe PDF) in the first place. It is
specific to creating the elements to the full capability of the PDF
specification.
The postscript generated by the Tektronix 550 Phaser printer instance
and the Adobe PDF or any other PS printer instance will *NOT*
necessarily be the same. Do a simple compare on the PPD files. If they
are the same, then the postscript will be the same. If not, then your
imageable area, paper size support, virtual memory space for the
postscript code, fonts, colour support, postscript level, etc., will
be different. Is that concept so difficult to grasp?
I give up! PEBKC!
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‎Aug 23, 2006
03:59 PM
Sherman,
>Do you have any other sources to support your belief that creating a PS file and distilling are wrong?
No one in this thread has ever said that creating a PS file and
distilling is wrong. What has been said is that using a printer
instance for a different postscript device to create the postscript
file for distilling is wrong. It's a big difference.
BTW, have you tried creating the suggested PS file using the Adobe
generic printer (the one created from the DEFPRTR2.PPD during the
AdobePS install) and then checking the resulting PDF? In case you
haven't, the answer is you can't do it. You get a B&W PDF with
clipping around the edge. So why, in your expert opinion doesn't this
PS file work?
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‎Aug 23, 2006
02:35 PM
Sherman,
If you could try using the Adobe Generic PS Printer to do a
full-colour edge-edge page with bleeds and let me know if you get a
proper pdf - after all it's just postscript... ;-)
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‎Aug 23, 2006
11:12 AM
Sherman,
I believe that Thomas was only saying that you were incorrect in using
a postscript printer instance other than the Adobe PDF for creating
the postscript file for distilling. As has been stated numerous times
in these forums, postscript *is* device dependent. One should use the
printer instance (i.e. the combo if the postscript printer driver and
the PPD telling it what the device is capable of) designed for the
desired output. In the case of PDF, it is the Adobe PDF printer
instance. If you use the postscript output from another device, you
may get incorrect margin settings, incorrect specifications about
which fonts are embedded in the "printer", incorrect colour support or
postscript level capabilities, etc. The resulting PDF can be faulty,
e.g. fonts are missing or have been substituted, output has been
clipped, it might only be in grayscale, etc.
You may wish to have a look at the following PDF presentation by Dov
Isaacs at
http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/pdf2k/01W/isaacs_reliablepdfcreation.pdf
and closely go through the postscript printer driver setup section.
This describes the tweaks required for the printer instance to get the
optimum postscript output for distilling.
As a journalist and a writer you might also wish to read the following
PlanetPDF interview with Dov at
http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?contentid=6569&ra to
get a little more perspective on the man.
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‎Jul 27, 2006
06:33 PM
I'm assuming that you are using the Adobe PDF printer instance when
creating the output from FM. The dropped text issue can sometimes be
resolved by changing the default setting for the printer instance
Graphic > Print Quality to 600 dpi (located under the Printing
Preferences > Layout > Advanced and also under Properties > Advanced >
Printing Defaults > Layout > Advanced - change it at both locations).
This is described in the following technote:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/324972.html
This 600dpi setting only affects the object placement granularity on
the page, not the actual resolution of the objects. There is a magic
number based upon the page-size, font height and the graphic
resolution that causes all sorts of phunnies if you leave this setting
at the default (4000dpi, I think).
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‎Jul 20, 2006
01:51 PM
In case you missed the live online seminars earlier this month presented by FM's evangelist R.J. Jacquez, the archived versions are available.
Benefits of Structured Authoring and Migrating in Preparation for XML: http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p60269818/
FrameMaker and DITA: http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p63192391/
These are about an hour each in length.
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‎May 31, 2006
10:32 AM
As of May 22, 2006:
Recent support documents
Number Title
312932 Does the spell checker recognize foreign words in graphic
text lines? (FrameMaker 6.0, 7.0)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/e2xN0FaHkh0EDw0HXv20Er
332783 Switch from View Only to Edit mode in FrameMaker 7.x
(Windows and Unix)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/e2xN0FaHkh0EDw0HXv30Es
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‎May 18, 2006
06:51 PM
Laini,
The newer TT fonts are actually one form of OpenType fonts. You really
should ignore the symbolshown and instead look at the file extension.
If it is ".otf", then it's an OpenType Font, if it's ".ttf", then it's
a TrueType.
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‎May 16, 2006
12:29 PM
Laini,
A "font" is a specific instance of a typeface, e.g. Arial-Bold. The
font family (or typeface) for this would be Arial.
From your description, most things sound correct.
On the Distiller Font Locations dialogue, is there a check box for
"Ignore TrueType versions of standard postscript fonts" ? If so, this
should be checked (I can't remember if this is a new Acrobat v.7
feature). Also change the "When embedding fails:" option to "Cancel
Job". This will let you know right away if something odd is going on
with your fonts.
Are you actually using the TimesNewRomanPS -MT and Arial -MT families
or TrueType versions of these fonts? If you're using TT fonts, then
you need to check your AdobePDF printer instance to make sure that the
font is being sent instead of substituted.
Open the Printers & Faxes control panel and right-click on the
AdobePDF printer and select the Properties option.
On the General Tab, click Printing Preferences and select the Layout
Tab. Click on the Advanced button.
On this dialogue:
- change "Graphic > Print Quality" to 600dpi
- change "Graphic > TrueType Font:" to "Download as Softfont"
- change "Document Options > Postscript Options > TrueType Font
Download Option:" to "Native TrueType"
Click OK and then OK on the Preferences dialogue.
Now go to the Properties Advanced Tab and click on the "Printing
Defaults..." button. You'll get the same looking dialogues as the
previous Printing Preferences one.
Verify that all of the above settings are set the same.
Click OK and then OK on the Defaults dialogue.
Now go to the Device Settings tab of the Properties.
Set the following parameters:
- Output Protocol: Binary
- Convert Gray text to Postscript Gray: Yes
- Convert Gray Graphics to Postscript Gray: Yes
- Add Euro Currency.... : No (unless you need to use euros in your
text)
Now click on the "+" beside the "Font Substitution Table" to expand
the list of TT fonts available.
For *all* of these set them to "Don't Substitute"
Click OK to finish up.
Now you can try another copy of your output to PDF. When you have the
PDF created, check the File > Document Properties > Fonts to make sure
that all are embedded before sending to your printer.
I hope this helps,
Arnis
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‎May 16, 2006
12:02 PM
When creating the PDF, the only "printer" that should be used is the
AdobePDF printer instance, which only has Courier and Symbol defined
as resident fonts. Any other "printer fonts" used in creating the
original document are at the user's own peril and FM will warn you
about the missing fonts when switching printers anyway.
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‎May 16, 2006
11:49 AM
Attached is the chapter for the FM6.0 version of the Tour chapter.
[Web/X wouldn't let me upload both to the same posting!?!]
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‎May 16, 2006
11:47 AM
The Chapter on "A Quick Tour of FrameMaker" somehow got lost in the addition of all of the Structured components for the version 7.x releases. This material covered the "basics" in unstructured mode - there might have been reasons for this, but it orphaned the Tour folder contents.
Attached is the PDF from the FM5.5 User Guide for the quick tour chapter.
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‎May 16, 2006
11:33 AM
Art,
That's not quite correct. Whether the fonts are in the postscript
stream or only referenced there is totally irrelevant. Distiller has
to know where the fonts are and whether to embed them or not. These
options are controlled from the Distiller side of the equation or from
within the font itself.
The Do Not Send Fonts issue only cuts down the size of the postscript
file by simply referencing the font names.
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‎May 16, 2006
11:16 AM
Laini,
Unless you have some third-party Acrobat tools like PitStopPro, you
won't be able to embed the referenced fonts. You'll need to re-create
the PDF output from FM.
The trick is to ensure that your job options for Distiller specify
that all fonts are to be embedded. Which joboption did you use for
Distiller?
Which specific fonts didn't get embedded? If these are printer fonts,
i.e. fonts specific to the postscript printer that you have, and you
don't have the actual fonts installed on your system, then you may be
in a bit of a bind.
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‎Apr 23, 2006
06:18 PM
As of April 23, 2006:
Recent support documents
Number Title
326392 Drag and drop doesn't work when you drop books into the
book window (FrameMaker 7.2 on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/e1sa0FaHkh0EDw0HTAc0Ew
332443 Can't save FrameMaker 7.x files in Microsoft Word 6.0 or
7.0 (.doc) format (on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/e1sa0FaHkh0EDw0HTAd0Ex
332864 Character code point additions for Cyrillic, CE, and
Baltic (FrameMaker 7.2)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/e1sa0FaHkh0EDw0HTAe0Ey
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‎Feb 27, 2006
07:15 AM
As of February 27, 2006:
Number Title
322104 Error "Color Definition/Print Setting... is
inconsistent..."
when you print or update a book file(FrameMaker 7.x)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eygX0FaHkh0EDw0HIx10Eh
322830 ICU 2.8 libraries required to compile a mapping file
into a binary converter file(FrameMaker 7.2)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eygX0FaHkh0EDw0HIx20Ei
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‎Feb 02, 2006
09:13 PM
Note: it won't activate the +/- keys on the numeric keypad and the
"Ctrl -" overrides the discretionary hyphen shortcut.
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‎Jan 27, 2006
09:20 AM
As of January 27, 2006:
Number Title
332605 Imported CGM files are smaller than expected(FrameMaker)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/exlZ0FaHkh0EDw0HElM0Ez
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‎Nov 22, 2005
01:21 PM
Can you elaborate on what exactly a "split table" means to you?
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‎Nov 22, 2005
01:20 PM
FWIW, there is "repeat last paragraph-related command" esc jj and a
"repeat last font-related/character command" esc cc.
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‎Nov 22, 2005
11:50 AM
As of November 22/05:
Number Title
332071 Troubleshoot errors or freezes during installation
(FrameMaker 7.0-7.1 on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/evI10FaHkh0EDw0G4FH0Eg
332114 Internal Error when you use Find/Change in FramerMaker 7.x
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/evI10FaHkh0EDw0G4FK0Ej
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‎Oct 23, 2005
11:11 AM
As of October 23/05:
Recent support documents
Number Title
331869 Support policy and resources for structured authoring
(FrameMaker 7.x)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0Gym20Er
331870 Error "The Filter encountered an error and could not complete the translation" when you import a PDF file
(FrameMaker 7.0-7.1 on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0Gym30Es
331774 Understanding Multiple Undo in FrameMaker 7.2
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0Gym40Et
331964 Troubleshoot system errors or freezes in FrameMaker
(6.x - 7.x on Windows XP)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0Gym50Eu
331838 Updated releases of CGM filters for Adobe FrameMaker
(5.5-7.1 on Windows, Mac OS, Solaris)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0Gym60Ev
329253 Nothing happens when you choose File > Send in Adobe FrameMaker (on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0Gym70Ew
331828 Troubleshoot errors or freezes during installation
(FrameMaker 7.2 on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0Gym80Ex
331867 Install and remove FrameMaker 7.2 and Acrobat Distiller 7 using the command line (on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0GynA0E8
331868 Disable or enable the clear history stack warning
(FrameMaker 7.2)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0GynB0EA
331895 File Info metadata values are not imported from one document to another in FrameMaker
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0GynC0EB
322739 "Internal Error .... FrameMaker has detected a serious error and must quit"
(FrameMaker 7.1 on Windows XP)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0GynD0EC
331866 History palette is blank in FrameMaker
(7.2 on Windows, UNIX, Solaris)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/et670FaHkh0EDw0GynE0ED
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‎Aug 23, 2005
08:55 AM
As of August 23/05:
Number Title
331286 Using FrameMaker 7.0-7.1 with Acrobat 7.x (on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eryc0FaHkh0EDw0GpV10E8
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‎Aug 04, 2005
06:10 AM
As of July 22/05:
Number Title
329043 Oversize PDF files may contain blank pages or very small
pages (FrameMaker 7.x on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eqzL0FaHkh0EDw0Gk3o0E7
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‎May 26, 2005
11:04 AM
Barbara,
Check out your Table menu >Row Format... > Keep with option ;-)
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‎May 23, 2005
07:55 AM
As of May 23/05:
Number Title
330345 WMF files mis-scaled or squished in print or PDF (FrameMaker
7.1 for Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eo310FaHkh0EDw0GcrS0Et
324944 Error: 'Internal Error 7104, 6062898...' when you save as
PDF (FrameMaker 7.1 on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eo310FaHkh0EDw0GcrT0Eu
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‎Mar 23, 2005
08:41 AM
As of March 23/05:
Number Title
331281 Hyperlinks in FrameMaker documents or PDF files created from
FrameMaker are shorter than expected
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/em4P0FaHkh0EDw0GVb50EQ
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‎Jan 31, 2005
08:48 AM
Dieter,
Thank you for the detailed explanation of this topic. I'll mark this
as a permanent topic so that it stays in the archive.
Arnis
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‎Jan 28, 2005
07:32 PM
As of January 29/05:
Number Title
329942 Troubleshoot PDF creation problems (FrameMaker 7.0 or later
on Windows)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/elsA0FaHkh0EDw0GPPC0E2
331115 Error when creating a PostScript file (FrameMaker 6.0-7.0 on
Windows 2000, XP)
http://information.adobe.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/elsA0FaHkh0EDw0GPPD0E3
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‎Jan 27, 2005
08:30 AM
Thomas,
I think that this setting forces FM to also interpret different ANSI
values for the hexcodes. Consequently, the glyph called in the font on
output varies. If you look at the FM character sets table, the
Standard Character set uses the FrameRoman encoding (hex and ANSI
don't always match), while the Symbol and Dingbats Character set uses
sequential values (hex and ANSI match). This only differs in the high
ANSI range above 127, where the accented CE characters are found.
None of this is documented anywhere that I've found.
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