Color in PDFs made from FM6

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:06:06 -0700, Michael Wiesenberg <qatframe at gmail.com> wrote:

>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. 

Not surprising.  PDF was always meant to be
a final format, not an interchange format.

>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. 

Frame's native Word output is worthless.

>The conversion from FM to Word may work better in 
>later releases of FM, 

Not that we know of.

>but the reason I don't buy a newer version is 
>this is the only book I have in FrameMaker.

A new version wouldn't help.  What would help
is Mif2Go, which does an excellent Word rendering 
of Frame docs.  It's one of our primary use cases;
the other is conversion to DITA.  (Mif2Go also
does better than RH on every output, but the tide
of hype tends to obscure that fact these days. ;-)

>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).

Don't know about that.  For ePub, we suggest using
the Mif2Go XHTML output, then the free converter 
Calibre:
  http://calibre-ebook.com

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/