Difference Between Save As and Print to Adobe PDF

[Fei Min Lorente]

Oh, yes, Acrobat version 6.0 Pro. Sorry about that.

So Art, if I understand you correctly, the job options for Save As might
be different from the ones I get with Print to Adobe PDF?

Fei Min 

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:28 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Fei Min Lorente
Subject: Re: Difference Between Save As and Print to Adobe PDF

In addition to Fred's correct advice, you don't mention what version of
Acrobat you're using. On the theory that you may have moved forward from
the version that shipped with FM 7...

According to Dov Isaacs, Adobe's PostScript, PDF, and Frame guru:
"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!"

Specifically to the point of your question, SaveAs PDF uses a set of
hard-wired job options that do a number of things that vary from FM
version to FM version so you can skip a few steps setting up your own
job options that are optimized for your work needs.
I think it's better and more predictable to not use the automatic mode
because it doesn't usually work well for me and it's next to impossible
to trouble shoot.

Art

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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Fei Min Lorente wrote:
>
>> Now the question has come up about printing to Adobe PDF because 
>> that's what our automated process does through Mif2Go, and the 
>> suggestion came up that I should use the same method when I'm 
>> manually creating a PDF for testing. It's just a bit more 
>> inconvenient for me because it always saves the file in a default 
>> location (My Documents), so I have to move it after it's done.
>
>
> This is not correct. You can actually set any default folder you want,
or you can set it to always prompt you for the path and filename.
>
> >From Print Setup, click the Properties button next to the box where
you set the Adobe PDF printer. Go to the Adobe PDF Settings tab and you
will find a list box for Adobe PDF Output Folder.
>
> -Fred Ridder
>
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