Frame on the Mac

[boenat at gedok.com]

Hello, Rick,

we're running Framemaker 8 and 9 on our 
Intel-Macs with Parallels 5 in a Virtual Machine 
with Windows XP. I also tried Window 7 Ultimate 
64 bit, but had problems with the creation of 
PDFs with Acrobat 9 (Pro Extended, all patches 
applied).

Parallels Coherence-mode is great, in it you 
don't see any Windows desktop anymore, the open 
Windows programs are fleeting like Mac-programs 
on the desktop and you can place them freely 
anywhere on the desktop (or your second monitor).

First I tried to run the Virtual Machines with 
the Open Source program VirtualBox but was not 
able to activate my second monitor in it. And in 
Frame it's better to have one for all the menus 
or pods...

So now it's nearly feeling like Framemaker on the 
mac (apart from the keyboard shortcuts in 
Windows. With some of them you may break your 
fingers).

In the last weeks I had massive problems to 
create PDFs with bookmarks out of Frame 8 or 9 
with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Acrobat crashed with 
some files, even though the same chapter/file in 
another language made no problem (so I don't 
think it has anything to to with the graphics). 
Creating PDFs without bookmarks were working.

But printing on Windows in a postcript file and 
than distilling it on the Mac with Acrobat 9 Pro 
into a PDF works fine.
Sounds a little strange to me, but it's a 
workaround thats keep me on the run without 
spending time (that I don't have) in 
troubleshooting...

André
-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

André Bönat


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