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Re: Adding Text Boxes & Arrows For Graphics

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From: Sheila_Carlisle
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:17
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That's good as far as the DisplayUsing setting goes.

FM uses the default printer to determine many of its output capabilities. The very best results with FM come when having the "Adobe PDF" printer as the default. There should be several threads on the forum detailing the reasons -- if you search for "setprint" you'll find them. Font quality issues, uneven results in graphics, settings that are only available in one particular printer driver vs not in another, fonts that don't get embedded in your PDFs because they come from the printer driver, those are just some of the problems that can be avoided.

There's a freebie utility called "SetPrint" that will change the default printer *only within FM* (this is important) whenever FM is opened. That way other apps on your system still think that the default printer is whatever you have it set to, and everybody is happy :-)

See <http://www.sundorne.com> look in the FrameMaker section.

If you do switch to using the Adobe PDF printer, the whole idea is to print to a PDF file and then print the PDF on whatever hard copy printer you want. You'll need to be sure that the Adobe PDF printer knows where to look for fonts on your system.

Back to your original problem: what exactly doesn't work when making the callouts in FM? It sounded like you were having a problem where the callouts didn't print on your hardcopy at the same place where they appeared on your screen?

If so, as a start, try closing FM. In Control Panel set the Adobe PDF printer as default. Open FM to one of the problem graphics and then make a PDF of the chapter or page, then print the PDF. Then compare to a print where you have printed directly from FM to the HP printer.
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