TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
I think just about everyone has found this to be extremely delicate and prone to
unexplained errors. It sounds like a font problem to me. You might try embedding
the fonts.
BTW, the Save As procedure in Frame uses Distiller as well. The only difference
from the manual procedure is that it uses some generic settings, rather than
allowing you to customize the output.
*******
> Hopefully this is a simple question for the FM/PDF gurus out there.
> We've recently acquired FM as we're producing some quite large
> databooks. Been playing with FM and I'm just back from a course so I
> feel reasonably confident in using it though, no doubt, there's still a
> lot of things to learn.
>
> Anyway to my problem: The book being produced contains some equations
> and for some reason when the pdf is created it loses the SUM symbol
> (sigma). Thought it might be a font problem but other characters
> (alpha, pi etc) are created fine. For speed with the draft version I've
> simply been saving as PDF but when I tried Distiller I got an undefined
> error with no pdf created. I've used our own PS driver (HP Laser4+) and
> the default PS driver supplied with FM but to no avail.
>
> Any advice/help would be most appreciated.
>
> Damien
> --
> Damien Braniff
> Technical Author
> Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd. Tel: +44 28 90 50 4000
> 50 Malone Road Fax: +44 28 90 50
> 4001
> Belfast BT9 5BS Web: www.iss-dsp.com
