Re: Text omitted at random in distilled PDF

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hedley,

What size were the pages in the FrameMaker document(s)? Letter? A4? 
Bigger? I am trying to assess where the problem "kicks in" -- we
previously believed this to be an issue of larger page sizes 
(i.e., ledger, 11x17, A3) only. Thanks!

        - Dov


At 6/2/2004 12:39 AM, hedley_finger@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


>The missing text was restored when I reduced the DPI from 2400 to 1200 in
>(a) the Distiller 'printer' settings and (b) the joboptions file selected
>in the Distiller 'printer' dialogue. I have no idea why this suddenly
>happened as I had been happily generating PDFs for months with the same
>settings that went bad.
>
>-- Hedley
>
>
>All:
>
>I am producing two kinds of PDFs from an FM book:
>
>(1) a PDF for our printer that omits generated PDF bookmarks and links in
>B&W from which to print our manuals.
>
>(2) a PDF intended for online viewing to include on a distribution CD, and
>therefore includes generated PDF bookmarks and links and is in colour.
>
>I have two different job options files with settings optimised for each
>kind of output.
>
>The PDF for the printer looks fine.  But the PDF for online is missing text
>at random.  Sometimes it is text in spot colour, sometimes text in black.
>Sometimes entire lines are missing, other times just a few words or
>colours.  Sometimes the text is conditioned, other times not. Viewing in
>Acrobat 6 shows the same problem.
>
>The only difference appears to be (a) different job options selected from
>the FM print dialog and (b) the inclusion or absence of bookmarks, etc. and
>(c) colour v. B&W.
>
>I obtained a new job options file from a colleague in case mine was
>corrupted.  I checked the colour views in FM but the same one is used for
>both the printer and CD versions.  I tried with and without bookmarks,
>hyperlinks, and so on.
>
>The setup listed below has been stable for months.  Anybody got any clues
>or has experienced this problem?  Could this be an Acrobat-specifc virus?
>
>[Windows XP Pro SP1, FrameMaker 7.0p578, FrameScript 2.1r3, Enhance 2.04,
>Acrobat 5.05, mif2go 33u34, WebWorks Publisher 7.05, IXgen 7.2p055, HTML
>Help Workshop 4.74 build 8702.0, HTML Help 1.31]
>
>Regards,
>Hedley


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