Character switching FM/Distiller

[Dov Isaacs]

For what it is worth, there is no such thing as an
"Adobe PostScript Driver," at least for the current
versions of Windows. The driver used for the Adobe PDF
PostScript printer driver instance and for most printers
supporting PostScript is in fact the PSCRIPT5 driver
distributed and maintained by Microsoft as part of 
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and
Windows Vista. Although Adobe worked with Microsoft to
originally develop that driver nearly eight years ago,
Microsoft has had full responsibility for it ever since.

The problems with FrameMaker's poor character set support
cannot be readily solved without full Unicode support.
You will NOT see such support in any FrameMaker 7.x (or
earlier) versions.

	- Dov
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:39 AM
> To: Penelope Perkins
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Character switching FM/Distiller
> 
> Hi Penelope and Kenneth,
> 
> Thank you for your help. I regret to be late in replying. 
> Usually replies move the thread into the Inbox of my Gmail, 
> but this time it did not. I just started looking in my Sent 
> Mail because of the thread
> (header) "Confused about hexadecimal Codes", and then I saw a 
> couple of replies to my posting.
> 
> 
> Kenneth:
> You are absolutely right. This is not a Distiller problem. I 
> would rather think this is has to do with the PS driver. The 
> character prints as intended on any non-postscript printer, 
> but on a PostScript printer and to PDF it prints incorrectly.
> 
> Penelope:
> It would have set me on the right track if I had read it 
> eariler. :-( But the "Confused..." thread lead me to study 
> the online manual:
> "FrameMaker Character Sets" where I saw that there is no 
> entry for the circled roman 2, which must be rated as a bug. 
> However, the sans-serif circled 2 has an entry, as referred 
> to in your reply.
> 
> ADOBE:
> I think Adobe should really make a separate revision/upgrade 
> to this part of FM for all versions 7.x at least, or if this 
> is, as I am starting to suspect, a PostScript driver fault, 
> to revise the Adobe PostScript driver, and have this solved 
> in the FrameMaker.next (as Bernard prefers to call the next version).
> 
> Thanks again and God bless,
> 
> Bodvar