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Thursday, September 29, 2005
 
Acrobat Web Capture causing problems

I had a user who was struggling with links in a PDF file that she was creating. The links were to Excel files stored on our company Web server (i.e., Internet links). When she clicked a link in the PDF, a Download Status dialog box appeared followed by an error message.

I was gone for a few days, so she first contacted our LAN department, who re-installed Acrobat 6 for her and spent the better part of two days trying to track down the problem.

When I returned, I opened her PDF on my PC and had no troubles when I clicked the links. So I started checking preference settings. I checked an Acrobat book that I have and discovered that the Download Status dialog box appears when you try converting a Web page to PDF. That pointed me to the preferences for Web Capture.

I checked the Web Capture page of the Preferences dialog box, and I found that my Open Web links option was set to In Web Browser, while my colleague had it set to In Acrobat. I changed her settings to In Web Browser, and everything worked fine.


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Monday, September 12, 2005
 
Adobe® FrameMaker® 7.2

Adobe® FrameMaker® 7.2 software delivers a powerful, enterprise-class authoring and publishing solution. With its WYSIWYG, template-based environment, extensive long-document support, and new multiple undo capabilities, FrameMaker enables scalable, single-source authoring and multichannel publishing. Publish short documents, multivolume books, and more in print, Adobe PDF, HTML, SGML, XML, and other formats.

(http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/overview.html)


Adobe® FrameMaker® software has long been the ideal tool for creating long and complex documents that can be distributed to worldwide audiences. FrameMaker 7.2 improves on FrameMaker 7.1 with the following new features:

Multiple Undo
* Easily retrace steps and correct mistakes with multiple undo.

XML Enhancements
* Use XML Schema as an alternative to DTDs for defining the structure of your content.

* Incorporate XSLT into your editing workflow. Automatically transform your XML content when you open it in FrameMaker or save it out from FrameMaker with XSLT scripts.

Improved support for the migration to XML and structured content
* New features in Conversion Tables reduce manual touch-up required in migrating unstructured content to structured.

* Introductory "migration guide" outlines the basic steps required in migrating to XML and structured content.

* More structured samples and templates

(http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/newfeatures.html)


Software will be available to be shipped by early October 2005.

(http://store.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml?id=catFrameMakerUpgrade)


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Thursday, September 08, 2005
 
Troubleshooting problems opening PDF files in Internet Explorer window

Found a new solution to the following problem:

When you click a .PDF link in a web page, the PDF document may not open and you see a image placeholder icon or a Red X in the browser window. To resolve the problem, follow the checklist mentioned in this article.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/pdf.htm

The previous recommendation had always been to reinstall Acrobat/Reader. If this solution works, you don't have to. I just did the Regsvr32 solution for one of my writers, and everything worked fine.


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