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The current version of the PostScript driver for Windows 2000 is well beyond 5.1.2. If you install Acrobat 5.0.5, you get a much more recent version and for that matter, service pack 1, 2, and 3 each install a newer version. What version of FrameMaker and Acrobat are you using?

- Dov

We use Framemaker 5.5.6 and Acrobat 4.0

Will this be solved if I install Universal installer printer driver?

Or should I install Acrobat 5.0.5??

Thank you in advance.

You should at least start by installing the Windows 2000 printer
driver, rather than the obsolete NT4 driver.  Install in the usual way
- ADD PRINTER icon.

Aandi Inston

How can I install the Win 2000 printer driver using ADD PRINTER ?

>How can I install the Win 2000 printer driver using ADD PRINTER ?

Not sure I follow the question. You just click the ADD PRINTER icon,
and select any PostScript printer.


Aandi Inston

But I need to convert the FM files to pdf file format.I am not printing the files to a printer.

The same pdf file doesnot have any problems with the Acrobat reader or print out.
Only when I open it in Adobe Acrobat 4, it gives such strange lines under some graphics and headers.

Yes, you still need a PostScript driver.  Doesn't matter whether you
have the printer.  In Windows terms, you install a driver only with
the ADD PRINTER icon, unless someone delivers it in a different
package. I would recommend fully deleting the NT4 driver first.

Could be an Acrobat 4 bug, of course...

Aandi Inston

Hi,

I found some interesting things about the strange lines, they were infact small text and not lines.

When we make some of the text as invisible in FM 5.5.6,(ie by selecting invisible option for that paragraph format) then this elements are not shown in Acrobat Reader, but when i open it in Adobe acrobat, then it shows as small line.

This happens with almost all the drivers. With PDFWriter it didnot have anyproblems.

Also, this behavior is not seen in ACROBAT 5, no such strange lines are seen.

Can anyone tell me what could be the problem.

Since this an Acrobat issue, you should be posting this to the Acrobat forum.

As far as I know, there is no invisible paragraph or charachter option in FrameMaker (any version)! You can make any text very small and you can have it match the color of the background paper (i.e., normally white), but there is no formal way to make it disappear. Thus, if you use �hackery� such as applying a style with miniscule point size and white color, the text is still there, although you might not see it on the FrameMaker screen and it might not result in marks on a printed page.

What I really suspect is going on is that you have Acrobat running, you have the preferences set for �greeking� of text below a certain pointsize. Greeking is always done in Acrobat in gray. And if the text is very small, it will look like the �strange lines� you report. Go into the display preferences for Acrobat and turn off greeking entirely and the �problem� will go away.

- Dov

Thanks Dov.

It was indeed because of Greeking. I think we have created a Paragraph format called Invisible and infact they have make it like what you said.

I don't see any grey lines any more.