Color in PDFs made from FM6

[Fred Ridder]

To retain color, you must use a color printer driver. If you use a driver for a monochrome printer, there will be no color information in the PostScript code produced by the driver. The driver for the Adobe PDF virtual printer (which has had its specific name changed many times in different versions of FrameMaker and Acrobat) supports color, so it is the driver of choice.

To retain hyperlinks and other interactive features, FrameMaker must know that its output will be used to produce a PDF.  By default, FrameMaker does not include the code for "named locations" or links to those locations in the PostScript that is generated for physical printers, because those concepts have no relevance to physically printed documents. The key, though, is the "Generate Acrobat Data" option in Frame's Print dialog. In this context "Acrobat data" specifically includes named destinations, hyperlinks, "go to URL" commands, and all the document metadata that gets displayed in the Properties sheet of the final PDF. 

So for color and hyperlinks there are two things you need to do: 
1) Select the Adobe PDF printer driver (or whatever its specific name is with your particualr software versions)
2) Make sure the "Generate Acrobat Data" option in the Print dialog is selected.

-Fred Ridder

Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:33:26 -0700
Subject: Color in PDFs made from FM6
From: qatframe at gmail.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com

Hello, I used to be a framers list member a long time ago. (You can tell how long by the version of FM I'm running.)

I'm trying to convert FM6 files to PDFs and retain xrefs. I use save-as-PDF. Unfortunately, this loses the color in the illustrations. (They become black-and-white.) I can see color in the PDFs by using print-to and specifying the printer as Adobe PDF, but this loses the xrefs. Can anyone tell me how to generate xrefs in the PDFs and also preserve color?


(Buying the latest version of FrameMaker is not an option for me.)

Thanks.

q


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