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Subject:Re: FrameMaker 5.5 to PDF Relived From:David Chisma <chisma -at- C031 -dot- AONE -dot- NET -dot- AU> Date:Fri, 29 May 1998 06:47:19 +1000
Dave Chisma wrote:
If the file prints properly to a real printer, but not to Distiller,
perhaps use the 'print to file' option to make a PS file (assuming the
real printer is Postcript) and Distill that one, instead of the one that
Distiller makes. You don't need to rename the file extension to '.PS'
from '.PRN' or whatever, Distiller seems happy either way.
Cheers, Dave Chisma
michael moore wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> It's me again, with the FrameMaker to PDF nightmare relived. Thanks
> to
> the help of the expert Frame users out there, I successfully created
> four PDFs (good news); however, two pages lose most of their text (bad
>
> news). Distiller produces an error message that reads as follows:
> %[Warning: The following Named Destinations were not defined ]%
> I4.1.523861
>
> These pages were laid out with two text frames. What I will call the
> main text frame does not convert to PDF. The text frame where it is
> supposed to appear is blank when read in Adobe Acrobat Exchange or
> Reader. The margin text frame, where I cut and pasted some tables for
> margin text, shows the side bar text for one of the tables on the
> first
> of the two pages but prints nothing for the other three on the second
> of
> the two pages. Mind you, the output is perfect on our laser printer.
> Only Distiller gives me this faulty PDF output.
>
> How should this problem be corrected? I am certain that the glitch
> has
> something to do with this side bar text or page layout with tables. I
>
> just don't know how to correct it. I have tweaked a number of things
> in
> the Adobe PostScript printer, Acrobat Distiller, and in FrameMaker 5.5
>
> to no avail. The only guaranteed method of restoring Distiller's
> ability to convert the text to PDF is removing the offending tables
> altogether. If there is a means of restoring this text without
> removing
> the side bar text, I would prefer to use it to removing those objects,
>
> though if that is the only means of successfully producing a PDF, I
> will
> use it.
>
> Again, thanks for the help last week, and thanks in advance for the
> help
> on this one.
>
> Michael D. Moore
> RTP, North Carolina
>
>
