[Framers] Save as PDF

John Sgammato john.sgammato at actifio.com
Sat Aug 19 17:03:02 PDT 2017


We had a different problem with Save as PDF. We use alternate-row shading
in tables. In some table cells, seemingly randomly, the text goes behind
the shading, becoming invisible. We have no solution so we Print to PDF
like in the old days.

On Aug 19, 2017 7:46 PM, "Peter Gold" <peter at petergold.photography> wrote:

> Thanks for the community-service alert, Austin.
>
> Would it be useful/possible to incorporate this useful information about
> the possibility of the problem reading the document on Chrome in or with
> the document itself?
>
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Austin Meredith <kouroo at kouroo.info>
> wrote:
>
> >    I use "Save as PDF" in FrameMaker 2015 unstructured, to create Adobe
> >    Acrobat Pro DC documents, and put them on the web at "www . kouroo .
> >    info". They work fine with the Internet Explorer browser. Recently,
> >    however, the Google Chrome browser stopped working, in that when it is
> >    now used to open one of my PDF documents, the links generated by
> >    FrameMaker, such as gotoframefitwin /kouroo/webpage.fm, no longer
> >    function.
> >
> >    Fortunately, there is a ready solution. There are now Google Chrome
> >    browser extensions that teach the new Chrome to read Acrobat PDFs and
> >    correctly interpret these FrameMaker links. There are a number of
> them,
> >    free, at
> >
> >    [1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/
> oemmndcbldboieb
> >    fnladdacbdfmadadm
> >
> >    and at
> >
> >    [2]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/pdf%20viewer?hl=en
> >
> >    The problem seems to be that Google has done this to its very latest
> >    versions of Chrome without warning, that these new PDF extensions are
> >    as yet very poorly documented and hard to find, and that most users
> who
> >    rly on the fast Chrome browser as their interface to the internet have
> >    no clue even that they exist or that something has gone wrong. When
> >    they try to access one of my PDFs now, they complain bitterly "Hey,
> >    Austin, damn it, your links are broken!" They are not warned what it
> is
> >    that is really going wrong -- that there is something they now need to
> >    install.
> >
> > References
> >
> >    1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/
> > oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm
> >    2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/pdf viewer?hl=en
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