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Hi everyone, 

I'm in a supertight situation here, and any insight would be greatly appreciated!  I searched the techwr-l archives and called Adobe, but neither were able to help me. 

Problem #1:    I'm a hired gun filling in for another writer for two weeks.  I'm on his Windows2000 (quasi NT) machine, but logging in with my own password.  I'm editing books in FrameMaker 6.0 and converting them to PDFs.  The other writer showed me that he creates PDFs by using the "Save As" feature in FrameMaker.  His PDFs were HUGE.  Well, after incorporating edits, I did the same thing...but my PDFs were TINY.  For example: His user guide PDF was 8Mb and mine was 500K.  I hadn't changed any of the settings -- not a one!  I then discovered that most of his graphics (all GIFs, by the way) were imported by reference (I always import by copying).  The graphic artist took one of my PDFs and put it on his Mac, which is not connected to the server.  The result: THERE WERE BIG BLACK HOLES WHERE GRAPHICS SHOULD HAVE BEEN.  That is, everywhere a graphic had been imported by reference, nothing showed up.  He said that this has never happened before.  If this is true, then somehow, when the other writer was saving as PDF, he was embedding the graphics in his file.  BUT HOW? 

The problem kinda-sorta seems to be fixed by printing to a .ps file and dropping it into the Distiller (the Adobe techsupport guy suggested this).  I saved the PDF to my desktop (there are no graphics or Frame files on my harddrive), and all the graphics seem to be okay.  But, because I was too stressed out to think of it, I forgot to send a file home last night to make extra-extra sure that I can still see the graphics.  I mean, when you print to a .ps file, it embeds the graphics, right?   

Problem #2:  Whenever I import this one .GIF (by either copying or reference -- it doesn't matter), it becomes blurry after conversion to PDF.  All the other graphics I import  are fine.   

Huge thanks to anyone who can offer insights, suggestions... 

Maria Alexander