FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for theAcrobatBookmarks pane

[Matt Sullivan]

I think I may actually put this link into my email sig...
(found by a "googling" Adobe Wish List)
Adobe Wishlist:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform 

I know Dov monitors this list, but if we each report these irritations to
Adobe they'll get more attention than they get on this and other lists.

-Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
Syed.Hosain at aeris.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:18 AM
To: Dov Isaacs
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for
theAcrobatBookmarks pane

Hi, Dov.

Please pardon my rant below ... not your personal fault at all! But, Adobe
does seriously need to fix PDF generation from FrameMaker, IMHO.

Dov wrote:
> FrameMaker (exceptionally unfortunately) unlike InDesign, Illustrator,
and Photoshop does NOT have the ability to directly export PDF using the
Adobe PDF Library.

[rant]
Is this still true for FrameMaker 9? (I have not checked this yet for the
trial version that I install a few days onto a Windows 7 system here).

If still true, *when* should we expect it to happen? Frankly, the inability
to easily and reliably generate PDF from FrameMaker is something that has
been present far too long! And this issue needed to be addressed *way*
sooner than the fancy front-end that has been released in FrameMaker 9. It
is one of my pet peeves with FrameMaker although I love the *program*
otherwise (been using it - off and on - since 1988 on a Sun 3/50)!

When I went back to using FrameMaker some years back, *every* time I have
done a FrameMaker version upgrade (from 6.0 to my current 8.0 - every
version!), I have had to reset the parameters and options I use for the PDF
generation process with Acrobat (also have all recent versions). For the
*same* set of books - and the settings are different for each book! This
last time, I had to turn Paragraph Tags on for one large document for the
process to work with FrameMaker 8 - the last time, I had to turn it off for
FM 7.2 for the very same document. To avoid FrameMaker crashes or correctly
generate the PDF output (without missing tables or duplicated pages
containing long tables)! I suspect that I will have to do it again with
FrameMaker 9 when I get there. :(

And, even now, with FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 9, when I generate a PDF from
one of my documents, it still annoys me that I have to open the PDF output
in Acrobat and set properties that I *should* be able to feed into it from
FrameMaker. Better integration of FrameMaker and Acrobat and/or far more
control of the PDF generation from FrameMaker would be a real blessing!
Since I do relatively frequent PDF generation (it is for specifications that
tend to change relatively often, and I send out review copies in PDF
format), this just adds delays and occasional "oops, forgot to set the
property" moments!
[/rant]


So ... the real QUESTION: when do you/Adobe expect the Adobe FrameMaker
software developers to learn how to use the Acrobat SDK, libraries, etc.,
and "do it right"? Please feel free to pass the question on to whoever is in
charge of FrameMaker development!

Z
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