[Framers] PDFs look like crap in Acrobat

[Wroblewski, Victoria]

Only issue we have found with Frame to PDF since the TCS upgrade is an issue of an auto number that uses a character style with an overline - where the overline seems to "hang" over the other text by two pixels.  Probably not noticeable to most, but it was to us.

Only suggestion we found was to bypass the usual print to postscript and distill process, and do a direct Save as PDF and check that for color, CMYK was selected rather than RGB.  Oddly, fixes the problem but we're still not totally clear on if this is having any other impact on our PDFs in the long run.

If distilling from a postscript, might want to try Save as PDF and see what happens.  I have to wonder if Adobe cut back on some testing in the area of people who do the process of print to postscript first (I know if our engineers or testers were running that show, they'd wonder why in the world anyone would go through that added step.  And it may be the results of that are the same these days, I recall at a time in the past they were not always).  And for the few that actually still put out anything that needs to be in a real, printed document or book, I recall our print shop ages ago required a PS file.

- V

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 3:07 PM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: [Framers] PDFs look like crap in Acrobat

What looks like crap? Fonts? If that's the case, could be you didn't embed the fonts and they're installed not on your new PC.

If you're talking about images, maybe look at the Page Display settings. Some of those look like they could cause problems.


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Fred Wersan <fwersan at mak.com> wrote:
> Slightly off topic - I just got a new PC and installed Adobe TCS 6. I 
> won't go into how painful getting framemaker to work was.
>
> When I open PDFs in Acrobat Pro DC, they look like crap. They were OK 
> on my previous computer (both Windows 10) and they look fine when I 
> open them in Firefox. Anyone have any ideas how to make Acrobat display them properly?
>
> Fred
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