[Framers] Adobe PDF Printer versus my printer

[Fred Ridder]

I would have sworn that at some point (maybe around version 9??) FrameMaker was improved to allow you to set a "local" default printer that was independent from the Windows printer selection. Did I completely hallucinate that? I have a pretty clear memory that after some point I no longer installed the setprint plugin with updated versions of FramMaker and never saw the infamous "printer metrics have changed" message when making a PDF.

-FR

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Subject: Re: [Framers] Adobe PDF Printer versus my printer

I believe you are correct. The system will use the whichever printer instance is the default. Save As PDF is the least reliable way to do this. The setprint.dll works very well and let’s us print with a certain level of confidence.

> On Apr 9, 2019, at 17:59, Carol J. Elkins <celkins at awrittenword.com> wrote:
>
> Ditto what Tammy said. That's how I've done it for the past forever.
>
> Carol
>
> At 03:07 PM 4/9/2019, tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com wrote:
>> Rick,
>>
>> Can you have the AdobePDF printer set as the default printer when using FM?
>> The Sundorne SetPrint utility
>> does this automatically for you.