[Framers] PDFs and FM 2019

[Sue Thomson]

Hi Dan

Re: Item 3
"Generate PDF Bookmarks" is now under "Format>Document>PDF Setup".

Sorry I can't help with the other items.

Sue 



-----Original Message-----
From: Harding, Dan <dharding at illinois.edu> 
Sent: 28 March 2019 16:00
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] PDFs and FM 2019

Good morning,



I'm just now getting around to testing 64-bit FM 2019 (upgraded from FM 2017) under Windows 10 Enterprise, as I'm about to debark on our annual content creation cycle. While I love the speed and responsiveness of the new 64-bit version of Frame, I'm running into some issues with PDF creation, and my searches of the list archive didn't come up with answers.



1. Sundorne's Setprint no longer appears to work, presumably because it was a 32-bit application and is incompatible with 64-bit FM. Is there a 64-bit version of that utility or some other method to always set the printer to Adobe PDF whenever opening a document? The error I receive is as follows:



Cannot initialize API client c:\program files\adobe\adobe framemaker 2019\fminit\plugins\SetPrint\SetPrint.dll.



Check for errors in the APIClients section of the maker.ini file in FrameMaker install location or your %appdata% folder, verify that the client program exists, and make sure you have enough swap space to run the client.





2. More of an FYI than an issue: By default, FrameMaker 2019 is configured to NOT use Acrobat Distiller to create PDFs... why I have no idea. When I used the default config, my PDFs had all sorts of missing elements throughout the document... placed graphics, running feet, you name it. It was only when I checked the box to use Distiller that I got fully intact PDFs.



3. Under FM 2017 and previous versions, as part of the "Save as PDF" process, there was a tab in the dialogue box where I could set the paragraph styles to include as PDF bookmarks and set their hierarchy. Where does that live now? It's not part of any of the Publish options for PDF. Do I have to use the PDF options in "Print" rather than part of the "Publish" workflow, in other words set different settings in multiple places to effectively create PDFs?



Thanks in advance,



-Dan