Adobe FrameMaker 7.1 Forum

This application works surprisingly well under cxoffice 3. Installation is painless -- put in the CD, follow the unsupported application installation procedure (all default answers worked for me -- no need for workarounds), and it'll install.

Once installed, it runs and appears quite stable.

I've only noticed two issues so far:

• font spacing is sometimes odd -- characters will sometimes appear to have a space between them when they don't actually have one....
• the application sometimes loses focus. This typically happens after working with lots of menus. I've not yet found a way to get the focus back.

The focus issue may be an artifact of my X environment (Gnome 2.6, metacity wm, focus follows mouse with autoraise).

All in all, quite usable. I've written several large documents in FrameMaker 7.1 under cxoffice, and greatly appreciate the speed over running FrameMaker on XP in VMware on the same machine! 😉

I run KDE (SuSE 9.1) and have not seen the focus problem (but have only spent about an hour with FM so far).

On another issue, have you (or anyone else) been able to generate PDF?

On non-trivial size documents I get errors of the sort:

%%[Warning: Times_New_Roman_Bold cannot be embedded because of font file errors.]%%
%%[Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: glyphshow]%%

These occur in Distiller 6.0 (which comes with FM 7.1). The settings of Distiller show the correct font directory:
C:\Windows\Fonts
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Resource\Font\

I have not yet tried to make a printer, but supposedly a "PDFWriter" printer is created by the installation of FM. The procedure for creating one is crossover is described here:
http://www.codeweavers.com/site/support/docs/crossover-pro/print-setup#ADD-PRINTER

My previous problems with printing PDF disappeared after I unistalled Framemaker and Acrobat 4.0 and reinstalled Framemaker (I recall that this is how you fix problems under MS windows ;^).

I have used Framemaker 7.1 now for several hours on complicated documents and have had absolutely no problems!

I am still interested in hearing how others installed the PDFWriter printer.

Same here. I can install Distiller, but it wants an adobe driver (extension .drv) to see that the queue is of the right type. I do not see how to do this. I tried kust installing the adobe ppd file, but that seems not to have been good enough...

Rogfer Oberholtzer