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Re: FM8: Placed PDFs are sporadically changed to an image (WIN DIB) in PostScript

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From: norbert_weber
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:43
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Thanks for your input but I don't think it's the printer driver.

I think Adobe FM8 is the culprit.

Please reflect:
Q: Where does the image we noticed in PostScript come from?
A: It�s from the printer driver. But printer driver don�t interpret neither PDF nor EPS.
Q: How does a printer driver know what image is at a certain position on a page and how does the image looks like?
A: The printer driver gets the instructions from Adobe FrameMaker to build an image.

In our case the printer driver did not get the instruction to pass through EPS.
But that is exactly what FM8 has to do when a referenced PDF is placed on a certain position.

The printer driver got the instruction from FrameMaker to build that image. It can�t build an image itself from passed EPS!

Therefore I believe the problem is within Adobe FrameMaker8.
FrameMaker passed the image which it shows in its window.

I tested in what situation an image occurs in FrameMaker PostScript.
It does not occur if a PDF isn�t referenced (still EPS is passed).
It occurs (e.g.) if a TIF is imported.
Because we never import bitmaps we can live with our WIN DIB recognition till Adobe solves this error;-))

Thanks
Norbert
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