Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0- issue still not resolved

[Fred Ridder]

There are several questions that have been asked and never answered through this entire long thread. Some of these questions are:

-Why can't you use the Print Book command to print directly to the Adobe PDF virtual printer, which produces PDF outputs directly from FrameMaker? This might be soewhat more complicated to script than a Save As PDF process, but that should not be an insurmountable problem.

-Why can't you use one or more "watched folders" and use either Print to File or Save As PostScript to put PS files into the watched folder for Distiller to convert to PDF automatically, in the background? This is no more complicated to script than a Save As PDF workflow.

-What are the features of Acrobat 9.0 that you simply *must* have? And do you need to have those features on the same machine that initially produces the PDF files from FrameMaker? I believe you mentioned that the prime objective is generating PDFs that are enabled for commenting with Adobe Reader; that operation can only be accomplished in a post-processing step, and there's no obvious reason why that has to be done with the same machine the creates the PDF. 

-Since the underlying problem is one of compatibility between an old version of FrameMaker and the newest version of Acrobat, what about upgrading FrameMaker to a more current version? Reports are that at least 3 out of the 4 newer versions of FrameMaker do work with Acrobat 9.0. Yes, upgrading the FramMaker license does cost money, but how much time (including that of Adobe and of list members who have tried to provide help) has been wasted already?

-Fred Ridder 


 
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:27:41 +0530
> From: garnier_framescript at yahoo.co.in
> Subject: RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0- issue still not resolved
> To: BEmrich at phoenixcon.com; Syed.Hosain at aeris.net
> CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Hello All,
>  
> I too have been using FM 7.0 with distiller 5.0 for 3 years and "Save As" was working just fine.
>  
> Other writers are using FM 7.0  and Acrobat Pro 8.0 since the last one year and "Save As" is working just fine. 
>  
> The issue is with FM 7.0 and Acrobat Pro 9.0. I have tried all suggestions provided on the list including the patch sent by Adobe. NOTHING works. With the patch pdf is generated but fonts in the document changes and the consfile.txt is empty. I tried on a new clean machine. It still did not work. As mentioned Printing to ps and then converting to pdf works fine. I have over 300 manuals and definitely cannot convert them manually to ps and then to pdf. I use script to autogenerate the pdfs and the script does not work with Acrobat 9.0. 
>  
> I also got to know that other writers who are not part of the list too are facing similar problems and in their case too the patch did not work. The patch is fine if one needs to convert to pdf randomly but not for a set of 300-350 manuals with over 700 pages each. 
>  
> B/R
> Garnier
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs
> > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 8:01 AM
> > To: Art Campbell; Garnier Garnier
> > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> > Subject: RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0- issue still not 
> > resolved
> > 
> > To be as clear as possible, the "save as PDF" feature of FrameMaker 7 
> > is not at all compatible with Acrobat 7, 8, or 9!
> > 
> >     - Dov