[Framers] FrameMaker 2019 Issues and First Look

Mon Sep 3 17:03:00 PDT 2018

I don’t know if Adobe monitors this list, but the pdf issue, for me, also
is a deal breaker. Seems absurd that they would take something that worked
and “improve “ it so well that it now is pretty much useless.

Tom Beiswenger
Bucher Emhart Glass
Horseheads, NY USA
tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.comj

> On Sep 2, 2018, at 6:04 PM, Harding, Dan <dharding at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> The new PDF creation mechanism and its inflexibility is a complete
dealbreaker for me. I need to be able to easily create my PDFs in different
locations with different names on the fly. Having neither of those aspects
settable at output time nor saved on a per-file basis is utterly dain
bramaged.
>
> As much as I dislike the idiosyncrasies and instability of Frame 2017
over Frame 2012, I won't be proceeding with Frame 2019 until/unless the PDF
functionality is fixed.
>
> I expect the scaling issues to be a comparatively easier fix.
>
> For now Frame 2019 is DOA (for me) and I'm sticking with Frame 2017.
>
> Dan Harding
> Assistant Director, Information Technologies
>
> University of Illinois Tax School
> College of ACES, Department of ACE
> 114A Mumford Hall, MC-710
> 1301 West Gregory Drive
> Urbana, IL 61801
> Phone: 217-333-0935
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 2:44 PM
> To: Digest FrameMaker <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: [Framers] FrameMaker 2019 Issues and First Look
>
> TCS 2019
> I have purchased and installed this new version on two Win 10 computers,
fully updated with version 1803. One is a Surface Book with a native
resolution of 3000 x 2000. The other is a Surface Pro 3 with a native
resolution of 2160 x 1440. Both have a 2nd monitor of 1920 x 1080. This is
now a 64 bit program.
>
> *The initial download from Adobe failed, showing complete when in reality
it did not complete, making it impossible to install. An Adobe tech did a
“back door” alternate process to fix that, and was helpful with the
download and install.
>
> Thoughts and issues so far for FrameMaker 2019 include:
> The display scaling is broken. The main high-res monitor is great, with
200% text scaling on the Book and 150% on the Pro 3. But when you move the
window to the 2nd monitor it does not rescale, making the text, menus, etc.
huge. All other apps, including Frame 2017 work as expected. This makes
Frame 2019 almost unusable on the 2nd monitor, or imagine, on any lower res
monitor. 1080 is not the newest, but is not old either. It is awful at even
the lowest text display setting of 100%. Frame 2017 had some display
issues, but the scaling worked fine.
>
> The PDF engine is a complete remake. The TCS uses Acrobat 2017, the
latest version. The processing no longer uses the distiller. It is all
internal. Frame “Save As” PDF does not allow you to choose your file name
or storage location. The location must be set first in the Publish pod and
is not held on a file basis. Frame Print Setup does allow you to choose an
output folder, but the Publish output setting overrides it, so I see no
value there. The only purpose for the distiller now seems to be to process
postscript files to a PDF. Making a PDF in Word, Excel, etc. does allow
choices for name, location, etc.
>
> You must set the Win 10 file associations to use Acrobat 2017 as a
default for the PDF extension. If you don’t, you get nothing; no file, no
error message. This may be the issue for Susan Corcoran on her Thursday
post of blank PDF.
>
> So, overall, settings and management and creation of PDF with Frame 2019
needs work. Lots of it. Very confusing and convoluted with lots of broken
code and different places to set things, some of which do not work. They
did not get the interface between PDF in and out of Frame correct. Settings
often do not “take” because they are stepped on by the Publish function.
>
> The color management is now totally automatic. There is no choice of RGB
or CMYK anywhere. Evidently the new engine determines the color model for
each graphic and uses it for processing. This is an improvement if it
works. This was another of Susan's issues.
>
> So the fixes needed include:
> *Display scaling across monitors with different resolution. (High
Priority) *Save As PDF needs to work as it did in Frame 2017. Publish
functions should be an alternative, not a requirement. The Frame settings
should have priority and not default to the Publish Pod settings.
>
> As a workaround right now, most of us will probably use the Publish pod
for everything. A real pain.
> -Choose the Source Document
> -Choose the output type (PDF)
> -Create or Choose a settings file that is what you want -Choose an Output
Folder -Hit the “Generate selected Output” Icon in the pod -Hit the “View
Output” Icon as desired.
>
> Wow. This is an improvement? Before I could set up the PDF in Frame once
for a file and it would work for that file every time, and I could choose a
file name and location if desired. The default file name and folder was
always the Frame name and Frame storage location. This was much better.
>
> The above is a quick overview of a quick look at TCS 2019. There may be
settings and methods to fix some of this that I have not learned yet.
>
> Your input is appreciated.
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