FM10 and Save as PDF

[Combs, Richard]

Owen, Clint wrote: 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:34 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: FM10 and Save as PDF
> 
> In spite of all the warnings, I have been using "Save as PDF", with
> mostly good results since FM6.
> 
> Now I am using FM10 and Acrobat 7 on Windows XP. When I use "Save As
> PDF" Framemaker tells me that it can't find the specified JobOptions
> file and uses the default one instead. This didn't bother me too much
> until I noticed that our logo was looking muddy and pixilated.
> 
> If I select "Adobe PDF" as the printer and then print the book, it
> allows me to select the correct job options file and apparently uses
> it. This way the logo looks fine.
> 
> So where is FM10 looking for the JobOptions file? Can I just copy it
> there and use "Save As PDF"?

Adobe seems to be committed to introducing random, pointless changes with each new version of Acrobat, and one of those is shuffling the Job Options files around from place to place. 

Yes, you can just copy the file it can't find to the location where it's looking. To determine where it is and where it needs to be, just search your hard drive for files named *.joboptions. Don't be surprised if there are several locations, and some duplication of files. 

Before my switch to Win 7, my Win XP install had been through several major Acrobat version upgrades. I think I found *.joboptions files in half a dozen places; some contained only the install defaults, some contained one or more of my custom versions. Since disk space is cheap and plentiful, I just made sure that each and every location had a complete and identical set of *.joboptions files. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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