[Framers] Save to PDF - Minutes turned into hours

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If I recall correctly, the need to do the 2-step PDF generation process ended some time around FM 8.
It's also significant that neither part of the process was a "save as". The first step was to Print to a PDF file, then Distill the PS to PDF using the Adobe Distiller tool.
It's also significant to note that the 2-step process did not produce an interactive PDF file. In particular, cross-references and coded hyperlinks are not active links because the link information was not passed through to the PS when you were "printing" a document or book.

-FR

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Subject: Re: [Framers] Save to PDF - Minutes turned into hours

Way back when, on FM 6, we also had problems with "Save to PDF". Adobe
recommended saving as a PostScript file, then saving that as a PDF.

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Subject: Re: [Framers] Save to PDF - Minutes turned into hours

Our company also is still using FM12. All was well until everyone was
upgraded to Windows 10 and the company wasn't willing to pay the
subscription price for upgrading FM from a 32 bit app to 64 bit. Save to PDF
was broken. After attempting to save two large books to PDF and ended up one
"no file"
 and one that worked, I discovered that if I created a little dummy book (a
3-4 page) FM book and always did a save as PDF on it before doing the same
with a real book, the save as PDF worked. That was several years ago. I only
have to run the dummy book once during an FM session. Not sure why it works,
but it does.

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