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I copied your code, pasted it into a PostScript Code text box, and created a
PDF file. My PDF's document title appears as "name of title." So the code
worked for me.
I printed directly to PDF from FrameMaker 7.0p578.
Rick
"Mark Osborne" <MOsborne -at- bna -dot- com> wrote in message news:195842 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
>
> Has anyone attempted to automatically assign properties (such as "Author"
> or "Title") to a PDF while distilling it?
>
> I have found a book that discusses how to embed a non-printing text frame
> in a FrameMaker file that has a PostScript command in it:
>
> pop pop pop pop
> /pdfmark where {pop} {userdict /pdfmark /cleartomark load put} ifelse
> [ /Title (name of title)
> /DOCINFO pdfmark
>
> When you click "PostScript Code" on the Object Properties dialog box,
these
> codes are supposed to assign a new Title to the PDF instead of just having
> it default to the file name. I can't get this to work for my UNIX
> FrameMaker 5.5.6. When I save directly to PDF from FrameMaker, the PDF is
> created but I get an error message:
>
> 1: Command not found
>
> and the Title property of the PDF still defaults to the file name.
>
> When I print to a PostScript file and then use Distiller (version 4.05 for
> UNIX) from the command line, the PDF is created without an error message
> but my PS code is still ignored.
>
> Any ideas?
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