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RE: Has anyone ever used pdf995 to create PDFs from FrameMaker?
Subject:RE: Has anyone ever used pdf995 to create PDFs from FrameMaker? From:"Spreadbury, David C." <David -dot- Spreadbury -at- marconi -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:54:02 -0400
First off I haven't used pdf995, but, in my opinion, the answers lie in how
you handle your files in FrameMaker.
Instead of using a pdf995 print driver, set up a postscript print driver, I
happen to use the Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600. It produces clean
postscript. I then Distill this using Acrobat. You would process the
postscript in like manner with pdf995 (their web page indicates "Easy PS to
PDF processing."
Also, when you tried it and it created separate PDFs for each chapter in the
book, did you select Print To File AND specify a unique file name? If the
file name was '*.ps' (or whatever pdf995 expects) you will get individual
files.
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From: Melissa K. Saumier [mailto:msaumier -at- inkra -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 4:32 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Has anyone ever used pdf995 to create PDFs from FrameMaker?
Hello,
I've been asked to look into using pdf995 to create our PDFs. It's a
freeware (or a pretty cheap license if you cannot stand popups) that seems
to create PDFs just like you would create them with Acrobat. Our department
needs additional Acrobat licenses, and when I placed the PO, I was asked to
look into this alternative. Other departments in the company use the
software to create PDFs from Word documents, and it seems to work fine.
My concern here is using the product with FrameMaker (we are using v6.0). I
did a quick test, and pdf995 doesn't recognize the .book as being one
document, so it creates a separate PDF for every chapter. OK, that's a big
problem. Has anyone tried this tool with Frame? What type of issues did you
come across? Can it handle conditional text? Text insets?
The pdf995 freeware sounds like a wonderful tool to create simple PDFs from
Word or Excel, and I would be tempted to try this for my personal use, but
to publish our documentation? Books that can be up to 900-pages long?
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