FM to Acrobat conversion disaster

David Schor dsch.tw at gmail.com
Mon May 18 05:42:07 PDT 2009


Yes, this was it. Thanks very much to Baruch Broderson and Yves for pointing
this out. I can't believe I missed this, but it happened.

Thanks to all,
David

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Yves Barbion <yves.barbion at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi David
>
> Choose Format > Document > PDF Setup and check the page size in the
> Settings tab. This is the page size (crop box) of your PDF documents.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Yves Barbion • Managing Director • Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
> www.scripto.nu  • skype: yves.barbion  • T: +32 494 12 01 89
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, David Schor <dsch.tw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Desperation time. I have a situation that's turning my hair white.
> >
> > Trying to PDF a 8.27" by 11.69" from my FrameMaker 7.2 docs via Distiller
> 9
> > to Acrobat 9.
> > For some reason, the PDF comes out 11.00" instead of 11.69" cutting off
> my
> > headers and footers.
> > I've searched for all locations of Distiller job obtions on my hard disk,
> > and all 3 locations have the same joboption file content.
> >
> > However, in FrameMaker, in the Print>PDF Settings>PDF Job Options list
> box,
> > the list of job options is incomplete. Somehow, I suspect that the
> problem
> > may lie here somewhere. When I click set, I get a message stating "The
> > selected PDF job option does not exist in the current installation.
> Either
> > create this job option or select an available job option. Continue?"
> >
> > AARGH!
> >
> > Please help. Deadline has passed and it's not funny.
> >
> > TIA very much,
> > David
> >
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> > Afcon Software and Electronics
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David Schor
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