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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the info!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sounds like it will be important to do a thorough test to make sure that all the capabilities I need are there … in whatever tool I end up going with. I won’t do this test/study for a few more weeks to month probably though.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For now, just the ultra-fast output file generation makes it easy for me to justify using it for the review copies I send out to people here (prior to final release).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Z<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> mamared@mamaredspeaks.net [mailto:mamared@mamaredspeaks.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>MamaRed Knight<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 03, 2013 11:07 AM<br><b>To:</b> Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)<br><b>Cc:</b> Robert Lauriston; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>One reason I ditched easyPDF creator and a couple of others is that the bookmarks I happen to like/use all the time weren't part of the deal. I did check in with support on a couple of the tools and they said "no, you can add them later." Not what I wanted to hear!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>) <<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net" target="_blank">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> My copy of Acrobat 8 is already paid for and it can do a lot of things easyPDF can't.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Okay. I have not looked at the details in easyPDF yet, but as a fast PDF generator, I was quite pleased.<br><br>But, I also do not do much editing of the PDF output. I use that file as the way to distribute review copies pretty regularly when working on a document, and having to edit it each time to fix things would be time-consuming. For the final release, about all I do to the PDF is add certain meta-data properties.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>> Are you sure you're using the same compression, font embedding, etc. settings when comparing performance?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Don't know for sure yet - only did an initial look to see if it had any basic fundamental problems. I will do more comprehensive testing later ... with other PDF creation products too.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Z<br><br>On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain<br>(<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>) <<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>> wrote:<br>> For example, with a very quick search, one of the best I have seen so far is BCL Technologies "easyPDF" printer. At $29.95, it does what I need, and [limited] tests using a trial version show it producing perfectly good PDF output files. It also generates _many_ times faster than Acrobat Pro. Last night, I printed a 30+ page FrameMaker document as a test, and the output file was written in under 1 second and was about 30% smaller than the one from Acrobat Pro. The same FrameMaker book took almost a minute to generate a PDF output file using Acrobat Pro.<br>_______________________________________________<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>You are currently subscribed to framers as <a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Send list messages to <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>.<br><br>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<br><a href="mailto:framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com">framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>or visit <a href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris.net" target="_blank">http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris.net</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Send administrative questions to <a href="mailto:listadmin@frameusers.com">listadmin@frameusers.com</a>. 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