FM 7.0 and Acrobat 9

[Fred Ridder]

Thanks for clarifying this shortcoming of the print to PDF method, Shlomo.

Now that you mention it, I do recall having heard about it. But since it has been years since I was called upon to produce a multiple PDF set from a single book, it hasn't been an issue for me and I apparently didn't invest any effort in remembering it. Now I will.

-Fred Ridder


> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:18:07 +0300
> To: docudoc at hotmail.com
> From: shlomo2 at microtype.com
> Subject: RE: FM 7.0 and Acrobat 9
> CC: Framers at FrameUsers.com
> 
> Fred,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >Umm, the discussion is not about "print to PDF", which is actually the 
> >method that several of us have been recommending all along. ...
> 
> This method may produce decent results when a book is printed to a single 
> PDF file, but it fails when a book is printed to multiple PDF (each chapter 
> becoming a separate PDF).
> Cross-file links are generated properly, pointing to the expected 
> chapter.PDF files; but the PDF files are named differently (with a book 
> name prefix), and therefore all cross-file links are bad.
> 
> For example, the sample ecology book included with FrameMaker generates the 
> following PDFs when "printed to PDF" as multiple PDFs:
> ecology.book(ecologyTOC.pdf
> ecology.book(resource.pdf
> ecology.book(concern.pdf
> ecology.book(response.pdf
> ecology.book(ecologyIX.pdf
> 
> 
> Shlomo Perets
> 
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