How to make a PDF from a Frame book using PDF Converter by Nuance

[Diane Gaskill]

Emmy,

Why don't you just use the distiller that comes with FM?  It's on the Frame
CD.  What happened to the copy of Acrobat you were using?  If you still have
it, why not keep on using it?

I have a few thoughts about your penny-wise, pound-foolish purchasing
department, but I don't think most of them are appropriate to state on a
professional list like this.  Instead, I suggest that you get your manager
involved and then your group Director and/or VP.  They can tell purchasing
to buy what you need to do your job.  You are not an Admin or in Accounting
or some department where all they do is write letters and little reports.
Frame and Acrobat are mandatory to do your job adequately.  You need Acrobat
for lots of things besides distilling to PDF.  Reducing file size, checking
links, fixing broken links (on a temp basis of course), possibly cropping
and/or rotating pages, combining PDF files, converting web pages to PDF, and
a bunch of other things that even older versions of Acrobat can do.  Can
this PDF converter do those things?  I'd bet not.

What file formats does PDF converter convert to PDF?  Does it accept .PS
files?  If so, then your could print to postscript and convert those files
to PDF.  Does it accept XML files?  Then save FM as XML and convert.
However before even bothering to do that, find out if PDF converter will
convert the links in the FM files to links in PDF.  I'm talking about the
TOC, Index, Xrefs, etc.  If not, it cannot do what you need.

I would not expect to find any information on PDF converter on the Adobe
website. Go to the Nuance website and see if you can find specs on PDF
Converter?  If they don't list any files that Frame can create (not
necessarily .fm files, but and files Frame can create, download the page
from the website and give it to whoever in your purchasing dept gave you the
wrong information.

Just my 2c worth.

Diane



-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Emmy A.
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:14 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: How to make a PDF from a Frame book using PDF Converter by
Nuance


Hello Everyone,

Once again I am writing for assistance. We have been
using Frame (currently 7.x on Windows XP) for more
than 12 years but now we are faced with a problem for
which we can't find the answer.

Our purchasing department will no longer allow us to
buy Acrobat. They purchased an enterprise license for
PDF Converter, which is made by Nuance, and they
expect us to use it. No, they did not investigate the
needs of the technical writers before making this
decision. They assumed that everyone at the company
uses Microsoft Word.

The purchasing people also told me that Adobe told
them that PDF Converter does work with Frame. This is
what I am trying to confirm. When I open PDF
Converter, it is not able to find the .fm files. So
how can it work with Frame?

Who can I contact at Adobe that can confirm the above
statement?

Regards,
Emmy Aricioglu



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