Color in PDFs made from FM6

[Michael Wiesenberg]

Thanks to all who responded. Printing to Adobe 
PDF and then distilling preserved xrefs and color.

Long-term this does not solve my problem. I want 
to prepare a book for Kindle, which requires 
dynamic pages and PDF is not a dynamic format. 
Kindle deprecates PDF because the conversion from 
PDF to Kindle doesn't retain all formatting 
features. Amazon recommends Word as source. The 
FM6-to-Word save-as feature completely loses 
xrefs and font information. They become, for 
example, "xrefparatextefault ¶  Font" with the 
xref text gone. And pictures are lost completely. 
The conversion from FM to Word may work better in 
later releases of FM, but the reason I don't buy 
a newer version is this is the only book I have in FrameMaker.

Even if this all worked, the point may still be 
moot. My book has upwards of 20 xrefs per page, 
and I don't believe Kindle books even support 
cross-references (other than possibly table of contents).

At 10:33 AM, Thursday, 12/19/2013, Michael Wiesenberg wrote:
>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