TimeSavers Plugin Settings

[Callie Bertsche]

I received a reply on my TimeSavers post from Baruch, explaining that
TimeSavers settings will not be picked up by Acrobat versions 8.1+ when
the PDF is created from within FrameMaker (Save As>PDF), because the
distiller has to be started with a -F flag. FM 8+ does this
automatically, apparently, and Acrobat 7 and earlier did not require the
-F flag.

So Baruch told me how to start the distiller with the -F flag. But does
anyone know how to create a PDF from .book/.fm files from within Acrobat
Distiller? I've only done it as Save As>PDF before, and when in the
Distiller I do File>Open, it doesn't like my .book/.fm files (it tries
to build a PDF but fails).

Thanks for any help!! And thanks again, Baruch!
Callie Bertsche
Tecplot, Inc.

> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Callie 
> > Bertsche
> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:01 AM
> > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> > Subject: TimeSavers Plugin Settings
> > 
> > Dear Dependable Framers,
> > I am having some TimeSaver FM plugin issues. Do not have TimeSaver 
> > User's Guide (inherited doc system that did not have the TS 
> UG); have 
> > requested it but has not yet been sent.
> >  
> > FM 7.2, TimeSavers 4.0, Acrobat 9
> >  
> > I need to use TimeSavers to strip the path portion out of 
> my external 
> > cross-references as I am building multiple books that will 
> sit in the 
> > same directory (I know, I brought this up six months ago and didn't 
> > want to use TimeSavers, but now I want to save some 
> time...). Also, I 
> > would like to use TimeSavers to link to an HTML page in a separate 
> > directory (adkrm/index.html).
> >  
> > So far, I have:
> > 1. Created cross-refs as normal in FM documents 2. Resolved all 
> > cross-refs and have all books/fm files with linking between 
> them open 
> > when building PDF 3. In TimeSavers Settings dialog, have 
> all options 
> > toggled off on pages Bmk Functions, Bmk Extraction, Bmk 
> Style and Bmk 
> > Start.
> >     On Links/General page, have toggled-on "Process TimeSavers 
> > shortcuts" and added "adkrm/" as the "Default path for files 
> > referenced in shortcuts"
> >    Toggled-on first three toggles uncer the Cross-file 
> links region of 
> > the Links/General page.
> > 4. Marker text that I want to lead to the adkrm/index.html
> > reads: alert ~ FileLink (index.html) 5. Build book by doing File > 
> > Save Book As > PDF > and set PDF Job Options to one mentioning 
> > TimeSavers in the PDF Setup for Selected Files dialog.
> >  
> > Anyone want to take a stab at what I am missing/haven't thought 
> > of..............? Thanks!
> > Please feel free to reply specifically to me as well as to the list 
> > since I am on Digest mode.
> >  
> > Callie Bertsche
> > Tecplot, Inc.
> >  
>