FM as PDF gold standard RE: PDF query

[Craig Ede]

I remember that one, but that affected text in main text flows, didn't it?
Really annoying; but that never really plagued me so I must have applied the
hot-fix pretty early on. 

At the time I had the dropped caption problem I remember thinking: "You'd
think Adobe could make products that work with other Adobe products; but
then, what's Microsoft's excuse since it has had so many problems having
it's productivity software work as described with its own operating system."

I think software is just hard.

Craig
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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 12:40 PM
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Subject: Re: FM as PDF gold standard RE: PDF query

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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