RE. Don't install Frame 8 If You PDF Your Books

[Tony Marek]

   Hi Valerie --
   You're right, I'm happy to say. Thanks very much for setting me on the
   right path.  I'm also happy to say that it wasn't me who was wrong but
   my Adobe Tech Support Technician. He specifically told me there is no
   fix for this and that I have no alternative but to go back to Frame
   7.1.
   But before I resorted to reinstalling 7.1 I got your post and went
   into the Print Book > PDF Setup dialog > Tags tab. I selected the
   Generate Tagged PDF option and set up the Include Paragraphs list to
   match my Bookmarks paragraph list. I don't actually know what this
   function is about, but it resulted in generating a postscript file for
   my book which Distiller could successfully distill. All cross-refs in
   the book's PDF file seem to work now.
   Previous to selecting "Generate Tagged PDF", all I got from my
   attempts to distill the PostScript from a full book was an error text
   message -- no PDF file. PDFing my individual chapter files was
   working. But with no way to PDF my full book, I was stuck.
   I have filed two Online Support requests with Adobe, and received no
   replies to date. One is a week old and the promised response time is
   24 hours. So, the moral of my story is: Frame 8 is damaged. Adobe Tech
   Support is broken.
   Tony
   >>
   Wrong! FrameMaker 8 DOES make PDFs with cross-references.
   What you need to do is to create the Acrobat settings to Generate
   Tagged PDF.
   Until Adobe creates a patch, to generate PDF in 8, you must check Yes
   in the Generate Acrobat Data > PDF Setup... > Links >Generate Tagged
   PDF section of the File > Print Book window.
   This a known bug.
   Val
   --
   Valerie Lipow
   [1]vallipow at gmail.com

   On 9/14/07, Tony Marek <[2]tony.marek at pdf.com> wrote:

        There's a critical bug in Frame 8, which I just spent an
     afternoon and
        morning tracking down on my own and with some questionable help
     from
        Adobe Tech Support (30 min. phone wait once they put me in the
        queue).  Frame 8 cannot currently create a PDF file for an
     entire book
        if there are cross-references within the document. PDFing works
        chapter by chapter, but not for an entire book. The tech support
     guy I
        just got off the phone with, after some asking around while I
     held for
        another 10 minutes, discovered that this is the current
     situation and
        there's no workaround. (Why he did not already know I don't
     know.) So
        Frame 8 is useless for PDFing any books that contains cross-refs
     --
        e.g. all the books my group publishes.
        I've unistalled 7.1 already and now have to reinstall -- and
     save my
        Frame 8 files to Frame 7.
        I await the patch that fixes this but the Adobe tech would not
     predict
        when that would be.  On top of that, there is Nothing posted on
     this
        in the Adobe Support site.
        Adobe is officially too big. They've become MicroSoft.

References

   1. mailto:vallipow at gmail.com
   2. mailto:tony.marek at pdf.com