Hi Diane, If you're unable to find a solution in Acrobat 3D and your documents are structured, you can create a special master page for your front cover and then apply it automatically based on a context label applied by your EDD. We use this to apply a "DRAFT" watermark to our documents before they are saved as PDF, thus avoid any hassles with Acrobat.
All you need to do is the following: 1. In your EDD, create an attribute at the root of your title page with values that represent the different stages. We use "Draft" and "Released", for instance. 2. Under the definition for your title/heading element, create a rule that applies a special context label to the element when that new attribute has a specific value. 3. Now go into your template, create a new master page (typically a copy of the page used for the title page), and drop your watermark image or text on the background layer. 4. Switch to the reference pages and tell FrameMaker to use the new master page whenever the title element has that new context label. This is done in the StructMasterPageMaps table. Once you've done this, all you need to do is set the attribute value in your document, apply the master pages (this can be scripted), and print your document to PDF. In the end, this solution will add an extra step to the FrameMaker side of your process, but it will free you from the extra steps you're taking (or trying to take) with Acrobat. Regards, Morgan _________________________________ Morgan Hayward Technical Writer Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:45 PM To: Framers List Subject: Question for the experts - a problem in Acrobat 3D that is not aproblem in Acrobat 8 Pro Hi there Framers, Acrobateers, and TCSers, (Did I miss anybody?) I recently upgraded from FM 8.04 and Acrobat 8 Pro to the TCS, which includes an enhanced version of FM8, as well as Captivate and Acrobat 8 3D. Some of the menus in AB8 3D are different than those in AB8 Pro and I've run into a problem with one of the Acrobat features that worked in AB 8 Pro but does not work in AB 8 3D. (Not likely related, but for the record, the OS is Win XP SP2.) In the Document -> Watermark dialog box in Acrobat 8 Pro, you can select the page or pages on which you want the watermark to appear. But in Acrobat 3D, the dialog box is different. There is a field to set the pages, but it is grayed out and I cannot find any way to enable it. Does anyone know how I can enable this field? There is NOTHING in the online help about it at all (surprise! :-) In fact, the field isn't even mentioned in the help. I have not called support because I doubt that they would be able to answer the question and there are more experts on this list, including Dov and other Adobe employees, who are more likely to know the answer. Assuming there is one, that is. Yeah, I know it sounds like a dumb problem, but we have a need to put a watermark only on the cover of the manuals during a certain part of our doc development cycle, and any help would be greatly appreciated. To save some emails, here are some options and workarounds that we've thought of but they all have drawbacks. o Switching back to AB 8 Pro - this is not an option o Installing both AB8 PR0 and AB8 3D. Nope, only one version of AB can be installed on a system at a time. o Generate the PDF of the cover separately, put the watermark on it, and then replace the cover page in the main PDF with the cover PDF. Possible, but not productive with 32 manuals. o Putting a conditionalized title in the FM file is another option, but also not productive because we'e have to generate two PDFs for each manual. Time consuming and harder to manage. Thanks lots. Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems _______________________________________________ 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/mhayward%40husky.ca Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ 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.
