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PostScript language level 2 dates back to 1990. PostScript language level 3 was announced in 1996 with first devices shipping in 1997. Adobe Acrobat Distiller is effectively an Adobe PostScript 3 �device� as of Acrobat 4.0. At Adobe, we know of no problems associated with processing of properly generated PostScript language level 3 files by Distiller.

In terms of what may appear in an EPS file, the major areas of difference would be in use of smooth-shaded gradients in language level 3 as opposed to adjacent similar polygons or images to represent gradients in language level 2.

Ironically, changing the settings of the �Adobe PDF� PostScript printer driver instance for PostScript language level (the Distiller itself has no such setting) does not affect the placed EPS (or EPS derived from placed PDF) in your FrameMaker document. The PostScript text in the EPS is simply passed through the driver unchanged, regardless of the driver's PostScript language level setting, to the Distiller. The setting you changed affected only the PostScript generated from non-EPS components of your FrameMaker document.

I cannot rationally explain the symptoms you experienced and why the driver setting change you made resolved the symptoms without looking at your files and knowing exactly how they were generated. It is possible that the problem has nothing to do whatsoever with your EPS files! :-)

- Dov