Book file > PDF problem

[Art Campbell]

Yes, it's there in FM 7, but Jo is running FM 6.

Which is why she needs to use the * to specify discrete files in the
Printer dialog's Destination (?) field.

Art


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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard.combs at polycom.com> wrote:
> Jo Watkiss wrote:
>
>> I had a look in the Frame print dialogue but can't see an option to
> print a
>> single file or separate files - maybe this is something introduced
> later
>> than Frame 6.0?
>
> FM7.2 has a Print Book As setting, and you can choose Single Print Job
> or Separate Print Job for Each Document. IIRC, in FM6 you made it
> separate jobs as Art said, by putting an asterisk in the name field. I
> think the behavior when you didn't specify Print to File was to print
> the book as one job (assuming you initially chose the Print Book
> command), but can't swear to it.
>
>> I have found a work around though - which is to print to file
> targetting a
>> different printer (ie. not Adobe PDF) - and then running that file
> through
>> distiller.
>
> Bad, bad, bad idea! This means you're generating PostScript specific to
> that printer and with the limitations of that printer. For instance, if
> you picked a monochrome printer, your PDFs will have no color. There'll
> be unprintable areas of the page specific to that printer's paper
> handling characteristics. The PostScript code may target specific
> characteristics of that physical printer, causing file bloat or odd
> behavior in the resulting PDF. Etc., etc., etc.
>
> _Always_ use Adobe PDF for PDFs.
>
> Anyway, if changing to a different printer driver changed your output
> from separate chapter PDFs to a single book PDF, then something's wrong
> somewhere.
>
> You might want to review your steps and check all settings in both
> procedures to see if anything else was different between the two
> scenarios besides the printer driver.
>
> Richard
>
>
> Richard G. Combs
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