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I'm running Frame 6 on Windows 98, using Distiller 4.0 to create a PDF for 2-color printing. First, I ran into the "I've never heard of Framemaker" response from the printer our company uses. Now, after convincing them that I could make a PDF for them, and doing so, I'm finding that the proofs I"m getting back from them are unsatisfactory -- the text seems oddly blurry. The middleman who I have to deal with says that the actual printer had to open the PDF in some other application (which he, of course, does not know the name of) in order to be able to print it, and acknowledges that this might be causing some of the loss of resolution.

I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this kind of thing, and if there could be some setting I could change in Distiller that might help at all. I will add that this is only my second time publishing a document from Framemaker, so there may be something simple I'm missing.

I printed the document to a Distiller printer instance, using the Print Only to File setting to create a single Postscript file of the whole book, then used Distiller to make the PDF, using Press Optimization settings and embedding all fonts. The proofs I've printed from the PDF on my laser printer look just fine, but when they get through whatever the printer is doing to them, they are fuzzy. Any ideas? Thanks.

Chris Schafale