RE: Adobe FrameMaker 7.0p578 Update for Windows Released - English, French, and German

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, there most certainly is if you want a bunch of accumulated other
fixes including the TIFF image gray-box fix ...

        - Dov


At 4/28/2003 06:46 AM, Mitchell, Sue wrote:

>This may be a really stupid question ... and if so I can only blame it on Monday morning no coffee, but ... If we are not planning on upgrading to Acrobat 6, is there any reason to install this patch?
>
>Sue 
>------------------------------ 
>Sue Mitchell 
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>
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>From: Dov Isaacs [<mailto:isaacs@Adobe.COM>mailto:isaacs@Adobe.COM] 
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>Subject: Adobe FrameMaker 7.0p578 Update for Windows Released - English, 
>French, and German 
>Importance: High 
>
>Today, Adobe has released an update to FrameMaker 7.0 to resolve a number 
>of anomalies associated with FrameMaker in the Windows environment and to 
>make FrameMaker "Acrobat 6-ready" in anticipation of the upcoming release 
>of Acrobat 6! 
>
>This update fixes the TIFF graphics / gray box problems frequently 
>discussed on these lists. 
>
>Further information about this update (including prerequisites - i.e., 
>version and previous update requirements), currently only available for 
>English, French, and German versions of FrameMaker, can be found at 
><<http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2111>http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2111>. The updater 
>may be downloaded from that web page at the Adobe web site. 
>
>Important notes in preparation for Acrobat 6, both Standard and Professional 
>versions: 
>
>(1) Without this update, "save as PDF" in FrameMaker 7 will not work if 
>Acrobat 6 is subsequently installed. Acrobat 6 changes the name of the 
>PostScript printer driver instance used for PostScript generation for PDF 
>distillation from "Acrobat Distiller" to "Adobe PDF" and also makes significant 
>interface changes in use of the system registry and parameterization of the 
>Distiller. Upon application of this FrameMaker update, your copy of FrameMaker 
>7 continues to work correctly with Acrobat 5 and if and when you upgrade Acrobat 
>5.0.5 to Acrobat 6, FrameMaker's "save as PDF" function will automatically 
>adjust its operation to that upgrade without any further intervention from the 
>FrameMaker user. 
>
>(As previously officially announced, we expect to ship Acrobat 6 in English by 
>the end of May with other localized versions to follow.) 
>
>(2) FrameMaker 7 continues to support placement of PDF versions up to and 
>including PDF 1.4, i.e. Acrobat 5 compatibility. PDF files created with 
>Acrobat 6 that are marked as PDF 1.5 (you can choose to distill with PDF 1.2, 
>PDF 1.3, or PDF 1.4 compatibility) and that actually use PDF 1.5-specific 
>features such as object stream compression or JPEG 2000 image compression 
>will not properly import into FrameMaker 7 if at all. For such PDF files, 
>you will need to save the PDF as EPS from Acrobat 6 and import the resultant 
>EPS into FrameMaker! 
>
>(3) Acrobat 6 is not designed to be concurrently installed with any version 
>of Acrobat 5 or Acrobat Reader or Adobe Reader of any version. We most strongly 
>recommend that you use separate computer systems or a dual-boot mechanism on 
>a single computer to accommodate any need to support multiple Acrobat versions 
>and/or to do "previewing" of PDF files in a "Reader-only" environment after PDF 
>production. 
>
>        - Dov 
>
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