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The Adobe PDF printer doesn't open files. Do you mean that Frame can't 
open your file with the default printer set to Adobe PDF? In what way? 
Frame should have no trouble opening FM files that call for fonts you 
don't have loaded.

If you're missing Helvetica Narrow Bold, have you checked to see if it's 
installed? You were probably using a default printer that listed 
Helvetica Narrow as a PPD font, a font built into the printer. Since 
Adobe PDF is not a physical printer, it has no PPD fonts and requires 
you to actually have the font installed. This is a good thing.

The first step in troubleshooting Acrobat problems is separating the 
printing and distilling processes. When you print to Adobe PDF, FM 
prints to a temporary postscript file, and then Acrobat distills the PS 
file, produces a PDF file, and deletes the PS file. But when you get an 
error, sometimes it's tough to figure out which program (Distiller or 
Frame) is causing it. You can change the port from Adobe PDF to File. 
Then when you print you'll be prompted for a filename. Remember where 
you put the file, then run that PS file through Distiller.

If you print to a PS file, but you get an error distilling, then you'll 
know the problem is in the distilling part, and if you look at the log, 
you'll be able to tell what page it choked on.

-- 
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com