What do you use for PDF Generation?

[Ron Teplitz]

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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:01:28 -0700
>From: Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>
>Subject: What do you use for PDF generation?
>To: framers <framers at frameusers.com>
>Message-ID: <4470F148.1010807 at aeris.net>
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>Hi, all.
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>Pardon the slightly unrelated to FrameMaker questions, but I am figure
>I am not too far off the mark here, since you all are likely to be very
>familiar with similar polices to what I describe here.
>
>We are standardizing on a new policy that documents/files sent "outside"
>the company must be in PDF form only. No Word or Excel (typically) or
>FrameMaker (of course! :) ) files. And, obviously, it does not include
>text e-mail!
>
>This means that we must install PDF creation software on all our user
>computers ... including laptops and ones that may not be connected to the
>Internet at all times.
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>Acrobat Professional is too expensive a solution for this, plus it is
>overkill for most of our employees. We have some people who only create
>documents and files in Word or Excel for example.
>
>Hence, my questions:
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>1. What are you all using for PDF file creation?
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>2. Does it allow forms? I.e., for external folks to fill in fields and
>send back the form!
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>3. What would you recommend we do, if you were setting up a similar
>policy?
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>Thanks!
>
>Z
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>
Z,

Every copy of Frame I've seen for a long time included Acrobat 
Distiller, going back to at least FM 6.0. Distiller does all of what 
many folks need in the way of PDF generation. What version of Frame do 
you have? Have you checked to see if your distribution included Distiller?

Cheers,
Ron