Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579

[Dov Isaacs]

Diana,

There is no such thing as an "Acrobat PDF v9" file. I will assume that you really
mean a "PDF file generated via Acrobat 9."

I don't think that you are really encountering a problem with the fact that a file
may have been produced with Acrobat 9, but rather that the joboptions used to create
the PDF file exceed the import capabilities for PDF as it existed in the FrameMaker 7
timeframe.

FrameMaker 7 was released in 2002 (approximately 8 years ago). The current version of
Acrobat at that time was Acrobat 5 which supported PDF 1.4. FrameMaker 7 most likely
does not support import of PDF versions greater than PDF 1.4 (and probably not that
version particularly well, either!).

Recent versions of Acrobat and Adobe Creative Suite applications ship with predefined
joboptions that are set for either PDF 1.4 or PDF 1.5. PDF 1.5 supports internal PDF
object compressions and JPEG2000 image compressions not supported by PDF 1.4.

If you have a PDF file that won't import into FrameMaker, open same in Acrobat and
via CTRL-D, determine what PDF version it is. If PDF 1.5 or greater, it most likely
will not import into FrameMaker under any condition. Workaround is to either use
the tools in Acrobat to dumb down the file to PDF 1.4 or to save the file as EPS
files and import the EPS into FrameMaker.

Of course, you may want to update your 8-year old version of FrameMaker.

	- Dov


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diana Stock
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:19 PM
> Subject: Acrobat v9 and FM v7.478 /7.579
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Was wondering if anyone would know why I cannot import a Acrobat PDF v9 into a FrameMaker v7.478 or
> v7.579 file.
> 
> Are there any fixes for this or is FM 7 limited to Acrobat 8 PDF files for import.
> 
> XP Pro
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Diana Stock
> Maintenance Analyst
> 214-792-2744