Question for the experts - a problem in Acrobat 3D that is not aproblem in Acrobat 8 Pro

[Hayward, Morgan (Bolton)]

Hi Diane,

If you're unable to find a solution in Acrobat 3D and your documents are
structured, you can create a special master page for your front cover
and then apply it automatically based on a context label applied by your
EDD.  We use this to apply a "DRAFT" watermark to our documents before
they are saved as PDF, thus avoid any hassles with Acrobat.

All you need to do is the following:

1. In your EDD, create an attribute at the root of your title page with
values that represent the different stages.  We use "Draft" and
"Released", for instance.
2. Under the definition for your title/heading element, create a rule
that applies a special context label to the element when that new
attribute has a specific value.
3. Now go into your template, create a new master page (typically a copy
of the page used for the title page), and drop your watermark image or
text on the background layer.
4. Switch to the reference pages and tell FrameMaker to use the new
master page whenever the title element has that new context label.  This
is done in the StructMasterPageMaps table.

Once you've done this, all you need to do is set the attribute value in
your document, apply the master pages (this can be scripted), and print
your document to PDF.

In the end, this solution will add an extra step to the FrameMaker side
of your process, but it will free you from the extra steps you're taking
(or trying to take) with Acrobat.

Regards,
Morgan

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Morgan Hayward
Technical Writer
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:45 PM
To: Framers List
Subject: Question for the experts - a problem in Acrobat 3D that is not
aproblem in Acrobat 8 Pro


Hi there Framers, Acrobateers, and TCSers,

(Did I miss anybody?)

I recently upgraded from FM 8.04 and Acrobat 8 Pro to the TCS, which
includes an enhanced version of FM8, as well as Captivate and Acrobat 8
3D.
Some of the menus in AB8 3D are different than those in AB8 Pro and I've
run into a problem with one of the Acrobat features that worked in AB 8
Pro but does not work in AB 8 3D.  (Not likely related, but for the
record, the OS is Win XP SP2.)

In the Document -> Watermark dialog box in Acrobat 8 Pro, you can select
the
page or pages on which you want the watermark to appear.   But in
Acrobat
3D, the dialog box is different.  There is a field to set the pages, but
it is grayed out and I cannot find any way to enable it.

Does anyone know how I can enable this field?  There is NOTHING in the
online help about it at all (surprise! :-) In fact, the field isn't even
mentioned in the help.  I have not called support because I doubt that
they would be able to answer the question and there are more experts on
this list, including Dov and other Adobe employees, who are more likely
to know the answer.  Assuming there is one, that is.

Yeah, I know it sounds like a dumb problem, but we have a need to put a
watermark only on the cover of the manuals during a certain part of our
doc development cycle, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

To save some emails, here are some options and workarounds that we've
thought of but they all have drawbacks.

o  Switching back to AB 8 Pro - this is not an option o  Installing both
AB8 PR0 and AB8 3D.  Nope, only one version of AB can be installed on a
system at a time.
o  Generate the PDF of the cover separately, put the watermark on it,
and then replace the cover page in the main PDF with the cover PDF.
Possible, but not productive with 32 manuals.
o  Putting a conditionalized title in the FM file is another option, but
also not productive because we'e have to generate two PDFs for each
manual.
Time consuming and harder to manage.

Thanks lots.

Diane Gaskill
Hitachi Data Systems


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