[Framers] Adobe PDF Printer versus my printer

[Mike Wickham]

Rick,

As far as I know, that warning message can't be turned off. It is 
FrameMaker warning you that changing printer drivers may cause your 
document to reformat. Most people think that changing the print driver 
just changes where the document will print, but it does more than that. 
The characteristics of the driver also determine how the document will 
display on screen. Usually, this makes little difference, maybe not even 
a noticeable difference. But, sometimes, as you have seen, it changes 
the word- or line-breaks and can cause an extra line of text to appear 
in a paragraph, bump the last line of a table to the next page, or force 
a graphic to the next column or page. This can throw off the appearance 
of pages, rippling all the way forward. And if you are preparing for a 
press printed book, it can, for example, cause the need to print 17 
pages, when the signature (the folded stack of pages that will be sewn 
into a book) is only 16 pages.

This is why it became best practice to use SetPrint to automatically set 
AdobePDF as the default printer for FM when it loads. What you then see 
on screen will always be exactly what you see in the PDF and, then, the 
PDF will always be exactly what you see on _any_ printer or on _any_ 
other computer screen. Then, of course, you would print the PDF, rather 
than the .fm file, to your printer.

If you don't want to use SetPrint, you might see if your desktop printer 
has an option to download fonts, instead of using internal fonts. This 
is a little slower, because it means that the printer must retrieve the 
fonts from your computer, rather than using whatever version of them it 
has hardwired, but I _think_ it might help with the reformatting.

Mike

On 4/9/2019 2:46 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Framers,
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> When I save as PDF, FrameMaker automatically changes the printer driver to
> Adobe PDF. So far so good, but I get this message:
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> "The font information for your system has changed. This change may affect
> the format and output of your document(s)."
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> Most of the time this doesn't matter, but I do occasionally get different
> line breaks even when I am just using Arial in my document. When the PDF is
> done, the line breaks in the FrameMaker file change back to the way they
> were as the printer driver is changed back to my default. Is there a good
> solution that will prevent this from happening?
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> I have tried unchecking the "Rely in system fonts only; do not use document
> fonts" checkbox, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. Thanks in
> advance.
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> Rick Quatro
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> Carmen Publishing Inc.
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> rick at frameexpert.com
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