Karyn, The difference is fairly simple. What is bundled with FrameMaker is Acrobat Distiller, the simple capability of creating PDF from PostScript along with integration of that capability into a PostScript printer driver instance labelled as AdobePDF. You don't get the Microsoft Office, Outlook, and web capture features that are available with the full Acrobat package. Also, unless you have the full Acrobat package, you must view your PDF files in Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is best thought of a pretty much a "read only" (with some exceptions) version of the Acrobat program that comes with the full Acrobat package. Reader has no facilities for any type of PDF edits, adjustments, whatever. Only certain privileged Acrobat plug-ins are functional in Reader.
With regards to your specific question, although you can print web pages to the AdobePDF PostScript printer driver instance to create PDF with the FrameMaker-bundled Distiller, you don't have the PDFMaker that works with your browser to directly create PDF maintaining live links and navigation. For that you need either Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro. - Dov > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Karyn Hunt > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:29 AM > To: framers > Subject: Understanding the difference between the Adobe > Distiller embeddedin FrameMaker and Adobe Acrobat > > Hi All, > > This might be kind of a dumb question, but I've never > understood the difference between the Adobe Acrobat > capabilities we get bundled with FrameMaker and the full > Adobe Acrobat "writer" package. > > I'm finding that I need more capability than what I have > in FrameMaker, such as converting HTML pages to PDF while > maintaining the internal links. While the Acrobat that comes > with Frame will convert the HTML pages, I lose all of my > internal navigation. > > So is that capability only in Acrobat Professional, which > is gonna cost us $500? Or is there some other, less expensive > way to accomplish this? Is there a mid-way package that will > cost us less? Am I missing something obvious in Frame that > will solve this problem for me? > > Karyn _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.