Can't produce PDF from FM 9 + Acr 9 on Windows 7

[Emmy A.]

Hi, Syed,
I would agree with you. I've been successfully saving Frame files to pdf on my XP box for years, with bookmarks and links all working perfectly and graphics looking good. So I was looking forward to doing the same on my Windows 7 machine. However, not only can I not use "Save as PDF" on the Windows 7 machine, I also can't print to the PDF printer. The same thing happens either way -- Frame 9 becomes unresponsive and just hangs. But if I create a .ps file (with Frame 9) on my XP machine and open that file on the Windows 7 machine, a pdf is created.
Don't have Frame 7.2 installed on the Windows 7 machine, but I could try checking to see if that still works. I miss the older interface on Frame 7.2. The new interface on Frame 9 requires more mousing, and tagging is clunkier. If "Save as PDF" doesn't work, it'll just be one more thing I'll miss.
Thanks for your help!
Emmy



--- On Thu, 8/19/10, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> Hi, Emmy.
> 
> The "consensus" here in this list is that "Save as PDF" has
> problems with proper PDF creation and printing to the PDF
> device is better. However, I am one of the hold-outs against
> this general "consensus". From FM 6 on through FM 8, I have
> found that "Save as PDF" gives me "more correct" PDF
> generation - I have written about this in the past, so if
> you look at the archives, you will find my comments.
> 
> With FM 9, I am not as sure yet - I have to repeat my usual
> PDF generation tests again that I do with every new version
> of FM and have not yet done so (no documents generated yet -
> haven't done much writing in the past few months). Because
> my experience with every release of FM from 6.0 onwards has
> been that the options you select, make FM either work or not
> work (with "repeatable" crashes), and they seem to be
> different from each version on. Once I find the right set of
> parameters, then everything is fine from that point ... till
> I upgrade FM to the next version!