Re: [WinMac] Migrating publications team from Mac to Windows

From: Bruce Johnson (johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 15:40:29 PDT

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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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