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Re: PhrameMaker 7.0 Phont Phunnies, and regular FM crashes when printing
Subject:Re: PhrameMaker 7.0 Phont Phunnies, and regular FM crashes when printing From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:38:14 -0700
"Goober Writer" <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:204380 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> > While waiting for a boxed version of FM 7 to arrive,
> > I've installed and am
> > using the demo version (320MB!). I need to first
> > produce PDF files, and then HTML files.
>
> I thought the demo didn't allow saving and printing...
> did they finally change that?
I don't know what it used to allow, but the current version seems to be
fully functional.
>
> > I know on a high level that FM "sees" fonts in part
> > based on the printer
> > driver. When I began working on this book, I was
> > getting regular messages
> > that Times and Helvetica couldn't be found and it
> > was substituting instead.
>
> Those fonts are used in FM's default templates. You
> can ignore (turn off "Remember Missing Font Names" in
> Preferences), or you can make sure all your templates
> are updated to not use these fonts (includes all para
> and char styles, master page elements, and reference
> page elements including the frame names on the
> reference pages). But, if you're not using these fonts
> at all and they aren't in your paragraph/char styles,
> then you can safely turn off "Remember Missing Font
> Names".
I can try that option.
I had not set any or the paragraph styles to use those fonts, but didn't
think of character styles, master page elements, etc. Mosre work to do on
the template....thx
>
> > I also found that FM 7 requires Acrobat 5.0.5, so I
> > downloaded and installed
> > the update from the Adobe site.
>
> You'll need to reinstall that after you install your
> official FM 7 copy.
Oh joy.
>
> > So I went to a workaround: print to a PostScript
> > file, the use Distiller
> > itself to create the PDF. So I use the PostScript
> > printer as my default
> > printer driver, which I have set to print to a file.
> > But 9 times out of 10,
> > FM 7 crashes near the end of producing the .PS file.
> > Oh, it writes a file
> > out all right, but it is corrupted somehow because
> > Distiller can finish
> > producing it.
>
> Do you have enough scratch space on your computer for
> this?
Not an issue. I found that the latest patch for FM7 addreses this very
issue, and the patch installs over the demo version. Reult: no crashing when
I print a PS file.
>
> Well, you shouldn't have to shell out big bucks to fix
> your problems, but aside from that, what you spend on
> one contract can be made up on the next. It's the
> nature of the game.
>
What "next" contract? In this economy, they are few and far between.
(Side note: I continue to notice that almost no job posts here are inthe
Silicon Valley area....)
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