Acrobat 9 Frustrations...

[Fred Ridder]

D'oh!! I read that backwards. You need to update *FrameMaker* 8 and not Acrobat 8! It's the same kind of story, but without so many chapters... 

Choose "FrameMaker - Windows" on the Product updates page, and then from the list you'll need to successively download and install:

- Adobe FrameMaker 8p266 update for Windows - English, French, and German (aka Version 8.0.1)

- Adobe FrameMaker 8p273 update for Windows - English, French, and German (aka Version 8.0.2)

- Adobe FrameMaker 8p277 update for Windows - English, French, German, and Japanese (aka Version 8.0.4)

Sorry for the confusion...

-Fred Ridder
 


From: docudoc at hotmail.com
To: despopoulos_chriss at yahoo.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Acrobat 9 Frustrations...
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 22:09:29 -0400



cud wrote:
 
> Ha! I knew it couldn't be that FrameMaker 8 was unable to create PDF with Acrobat 9. I turns out I need to patch. Until I get the patches, the workaround is to turn on tagging in the PDF settings. 
> 
> Now, I can't seem to find the patches anywhere. They aren't obvious on the Adobe site. But if I want to migrate Maker 8 to a new machine, I need them... Am I just blind and can't see them? Can anybody give me a pointer? The UPDATER command doesn't work because it thinks I have the wrong build of the product, for some reason...

Go the Adobe home page. From the menu bar, pull down the Downloads menu and choose Updates. In the Product selection box on the Product updates page, select Acrobat-Windows. 
If you are starting with a fresh install of Acrobat 8.0 (from the CD), to get to a fully updated state you will need to download and apply the following updates in order:
- Adobe Acrobat 8.1 Professional and Standard update - multiple languages (6/14/2007)
- Adobe Acrobat 8.1.1 Professional and Standard update - multiple languages (10/22/2007)
- Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2 Professional and Standard update - multiple languages (2/6/2008)
- Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3 Professional, Standard, and 3D update - multiple languages (11/4/2008)
- Adobe Acrobat 8.1.6 Professional and Standard Update - Multiple Languages (6/9/2009) [the 8.1.6 can be applied to any version from 8.1.3 to 8.1.5, so you can skip the 8.1.4 and 8.1.5 updates]
- Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Professional and Standard Update - Multiple Languages (10/13/2009)
- Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Professional and Standard Update - Multiple Languages (1/12/2010)
- Adobe Acrobat 8.2.2 Professional and Standard update - multiple languages (4/13/2010) [the 8.2.2 update can be installed on 8.2 or 8.2.1 so you can skip the 8.2.1 update]
Adobe is notorious for doing only incremental updates so that the automatic update tool will work properly. But this is also why the Updater isn't working for you--when it queries the Adobe website, it will find that the latest version is 8.2.2 and that to update to that version you must alreayd have either 8.2 or 8.2.1 installed rather than the base 8.0 release. 
Note that the majority of the point release updates are described as being security-related rather than dealing with real functionality. But in roder to get to the functional update you need, you've got to wade through all the intremediate incremental updates. Isn't it fun dealing with 3-year-old software?
-Fred Ridder
 
 
 
 



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