FM 6.0 w/CS 3.x :: Missing Footers/Chapter Numbers in PDFs

Thread View: adobe.framemaker

3 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

3 total messages Started by Patches Millwood Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:38

#1742

Author: Patches Millwood
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:38

17 lines
1621 bytes

Hi all,

I've done some poking around and didn't find anything specifically addressing this, so hopefully it's not a case of me missing the obvious.

I work at a company where we use FM 6.0 to produce documentation (sometimes directly through FM, other times through a series of scripts that produce MIF that is fed through FM to produce output).

What has been happening more frequently is that after generating a PDF (either through "Save As (pdf)" or by printing to the Adobe Printer to generate a .ps file and then distilling that to a .pdf), many of the footers will fail to appear in the final document.

Sometimes switching from trying to save directly to a PDF to distilling the final works; othertimes the reverse is true.

I'm not sure if perhaps this is related to having an older version of FM, or what the problem might be.

If anyone has any insight, it'd be much appreciated.

Thanks for reading,

PM

Re: FM 6.0 w/CS 3.x :: Missing Footers/Chapter Numbers in PDFs

#1593

Author: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:45

14 lines
1205 bytes

PM,

With FM6 (and earlier versions), you definitely should not be using
the Save As PDF feature It was buggy and for a more detailed tome on
this, see the note by Dov Isaacs at:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef52ecf

If the text is "dropping out" and not being clipped by an incorrect
output sheet size, then there is a MS hotfix that might alleviate the
problem. See the posting at the top of the Forum on PDF text drop out
and FNTCACHE.DAT issues being resolved:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5ba92

Re: FM 6.0 w/CS 3.x :: Missing Footers/Chapter Numbers in PDFs

#1631

Author: Patches Millwood
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:10

7 lines
992 bytes

Thanks Arnis. I wasn't aware of the patch, and have installed it.

Typically, I wouldn't have used the "Save as PDF" command, as I was aware of the issues surrounding it; however, it did seem to occasionally resolve the intermittent dropout of text.

Thanks again for providing the link to the patch - hopefully won't run into the issue again!

-PM

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads