FM as PDF gold standard RE: PDF query

[Mike Wickham]

Craig,

It sounds like you got hit with the Windows XP bug that caused 
intermittent, unexplained dropping of text in PDFs. As I recall, the 
problem was with the MS Postscript processor. There was a Microsoft 
hotfix issued to deal with it. At the time, the problem and fix were 
pretty well known on this forum.

Mike Wickham

On 10/18/2014 11:51 AM, Craig Ede wrote:
> Not to burst anybody's bubble, but even back in the fondly remembered
> "Golden Age of FrameMaker" (circa 5.5-7.0) PDF could be faulty. I had
> dropped captions there was no explanation for in tabloid printouts heavy in
> graphics. Pretty simple stuff, a set of 16 graphics each inhabiting an eight
> of a single sheet (double-sided), each having a short title caption in a
> text box below it (below being relative to the image orientation). Somehow
> one caption would just fail to print. All you folks still living in the
> Golden Age; give that a try. My guess was that it some kind of buffering
> issue that dropped things after a certain size was reached. It never
> affected the graphics, just the text. (If memory serves, the issue may also
> have be related to whether the text box was rotated, but the Golden Age is
> so long ago now I'm not sure about that.)
>
> Craig
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