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Jim Royal wrote:
>
> Leonard wrote:
>
> > HOWEVER, I would recommend that if you move your FrameMaker
> > users to Windows that you keep at least one Mac around running FM for
> > use when doing actual document production (printing, PDF generation,
> > etc.)!!! FM/Mac does it's own internal (high quality) Postscript
> > generation, while FM/Win relies on the standard printer drivers
> > (which means GDI->PS conversion).
>
> Let me second this. I'm using FrameMaker/Mac is a mostly FrameMaker/Windows
> environment. I find that having the Mac around allows me to catch font
> errors in documents created by my Windows-using co-workers. And the
> PostScript generation is always flawless (there are a lot of caveats and
> gotchas in creating PostScript from Frame/Windows, especially if you are
> also creating PDF files).
Does using Adobe's PS drivers vs the ones that come with Windows help it
any? I do know that we've gotten quite reliable PS printing by dumpind
the Windows drivers and using Adobe's...
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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