Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0

[Stuart Rogers]

Paul Grigg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using the SAVE AS PDF function
> over printing to a postscript file and then distilling?


In FM 6, yup, a lot of disadvantages; somewhat fewer in later versions. 
See http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html
for the full story.

If you install Setprint from Sundorne
http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm
you can set up Distiller (or Adobe PDF or whatever your version of it is 
called) as the default printer within FM, while leaving your regular h/w 
printer as the default in other applications. Then you can simply print 
your FM docs to PDF.


-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

srogers phoenix-geophysics com

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in 
moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification 
for selfishness."

John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006
"The smartest export Canada ever sent to the United States."


Get Firefox!
http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5