Thanks for the info! Sounds like it will be important to do a thorough test to make sure that all the capabilities I need are there ... in whatever tool I end up going with. I won't do this test/study for a few more weeks to month probably though.
For now, just the ultra-fast output file generation makes it easy for me to justify using it for the review copies I send out to people here (prior to final release). Z From: mamared at mamaredspeaks.net [mailto:mama...@mamaredspeaks.net] On Behalf Of MamaRed Knight Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 11:07 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) Cc: Robert Lauriston; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker? One reason I ditched easyPDF creator and a couple of others is that the bookmarks I happen to like/use all the time weren't part of the deal. I did check in with support on a couple of the tools and they said "no, you can add them later." Not what I wanted to hear! On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>> wrote: > My copy of Acrobat 8 is already paid for and it can do a lot of things > easyPDF can't. Okay. I have not looked at the details in easyPDF yet, but as a fast PDF generator, I was quite pleased. But, I also do not do much editing of the PDF output. I use that file as the way to distribute review copies pretty regularly when working on a document, and having to edit it each time to fix things would be time-consuming. For the final release, about all I do to the PDF is add certain meta-data properties. > Are you sure you're using the same compression, font embedding, etc. settings > when comparing performance? Don't know for sure yet - only did an initial look to see if it had any basic fundamental problems. I will do more comprehensive testing later ... with other PDF creation products too. Z On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>> wrote: > For example, with a very quick search, one of the best I have seen so far is > BCL Technologies "easyPDF" printer. At $29.95, it does what I need, and > [limited] tests using a trial version show it producing perfectly good PDF > output files. It also generates _many_ times faster than Acrobat Pro. Last > night, I printed a 30+ page FrameMaker document as a test, and the output > file was written in under 1 second and was about 30% smaller than the one > from Acrobat Pro. The same FrameMaker book took almost a minute to generate a > PDF output file using Acrobat Pro. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com> or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris.net Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com<mailto:listadmin at frameusers.com>. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as jerilynne.knight at gmail.com<mailto:jerilynne.knight at gmail.com>. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com> or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jerilynne.knight%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com<mailto:listadmin at frameusers.com>. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- may your day be igKnighted with passionately powerful possibilities! [http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85825/mamared/6f893a010065d3278240d96be3acabe0.png] <http://www.mylivesignature.com/> MamaRed Knight "Sexy backends for your business" Making strategies, systems, and automation work harder so you don't have to! Schedule your complimentary "igKnight Your Business" rendezvous<http://my.vcita.com/mamared/scheduler?service_id=5e4840fb> and get kick-a$$ clarity on your next doable step! Let's talk: 203.MAMA054 (203.626.2054) Let's connect: Facebook<http://facebook.com/mamaredknight> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/mama_red> | LinkedIn<http://linkedin.com/in/mamared> | The Web<http://mamaredspeaks.com/> | Pinterest<http://pinterest.com/mamaredpins> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130403/31f4384a/attachment.html>
