Re: fmbatch post script print problem

[Ken Luke <ken_luke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:41 PM 3/14/2003, Thomas Michanek wrote:
>From: "Ken Luke" <ken_luke@mentorg.com>
> > The behavior of the "smart" Print dialog is indeed a bug. The specific
> > setting is not saved with the file, yet all other print settings are.
>
>
>On UNIX, the intention is that you either create a PS file for printing
>purposes, *or* a PDF file with Acrobat Data. Turning on Acrobat Data
>switches the Destination to PDF File, and the other way around. You
>can override this by first turning on Acrobat Data and then switch
>the Destination to PostScript File, but that's not considered to be
>a "standard" option. You both wish to post-process the PS file before
>creating PDF, but that's not considered a standard practice.

Well, it's standard here; We've been doing it this way for about four years.

>You have four choices:
>1. Create PS files with Acrobat Data manually from each file,
>    without using fmbatch.
>2. Create PS files without Acrobat Data using fmbatch.
>3. Find a way to include the information you want in the PS file
>    by using an FM add-on like Shlomo Peret's TimeSavers.
>4. Write a script that copies the temporary PS file created by FM
>    before it's deleted (after being handed over to the Distiller).
>
>A final thing: only the Print options Generate Acrobat Data and
>Print Separations are saved with the file when saving as MIF.
>Something to think about if you post-process MIF files or use
>MIF as the storage format for version control systems.
>
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert


Option #4 is what we have been doing. Someone else kindly mentioned #3, 
we'll take a look at it.

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  Ken Luke                               ken_luke@mentor.com
    "Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard."
    -- Edmund Keane
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