This is forwarded to include the mailing list. Begin forwarded message: > > Thanks Alan! > > Sorry, yes, more info. Windows. FM 7.2. > > All the bookmarks are set up along with the levels, etc. I can > generate the bookmarks by themselves in a PDF. But as soon as I try > to generate a pdf with both the bookmarks and the Tombo cropmarks, I > only see the Tombo cropmarks in the pdf. > > I've played with the paper sizes and I originally had 8.5 x 11 paper > size (page size in the FM document was 7.5 x 8 or something like > that). > > I continued to google this issue and came across a comment that > someone said to keep making the paper size larger, such as tabloid > paper size, and then generate the pdf and run through distiller. > (When I do that I see my bookmarks but not the cropmarks.) > > Then open up the pdf in Acrobat and then crop the pages to the > desired page size. And sure enough, as soon as I did that, I saw the > cropmarks. > > This seems like a very odd process to get the desired results. The > client whose files these are only has FM version 7.1. We have 7.2. > Client is on vacation so they can't answer our questions on how they > generate their pdfs. I'm wondering if we are missing an update? Or > we have installed an update that the client doesn't have? > > Thanks! > Christine > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan T Litchfield [mailto:alan at alphabyte.co.nz] > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:39 PM > To: Christine Snow > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Framemaker 7 - need bookmarks and cropmarks in PDF > > Christine, > > Cannot answer your question without further information. > > Platform, what you did, etc. > > Assume you have read the help on how to generate pdf files and > bookmarks for example, this text is copied from the help: > > To set bookmarks: > > 1. In the PDF Setup dialog box, choose Bookmarks from the pop-up > menu, or click the Bookmarks tab (Windows/UNIX). > 2. Select Generate PDF Bookmarks. > 3. To specify at which level bookmarks appear expanded in the > exported PDF, select an option from the Bookmarks Expanded through > Level pop-up menu. You can type a value, such as 2, to specify that > you only want the top two levels expanded. > 4. To indicate which paragraphs should be converted to PDF > bookmarks, move paragraph tags between scroll lists. The paragraphs > in the Include Paragraphs scroll list will have bookmarks in the PDF > file. To move a tag between scroll lists, select the tag and click > an arrow or double-click the tag. To move all the tags from one > scroll list to the other, Shift-click an arrow. To omit bookmarks, > deselect Generate PDF Bookmarks. > 5. To change bookmark levels for the included paragraphs, select > a paragraph tag and click a Bookmark Level arrow. To change the > level of all items, Shift-click a Bookmark Level arrow. If the > indent for a tag exceeds six levels, n> precedes the paragraph tag, > where n is the indentation level of the paragraph tag. > 6. To include paragraph tags along with the paragraph text in the > bookmarks, select Include Paragraph Tags in Bookmark Text. Use this > option to check the assigned levels of bookmarks in a draft of the > PDF file. (Deselect this option when you print the final draft of the > document.) > 7. Set up article threading by doing one of the following: > * To have the reading order of each article follow the > same order that the insertion point moves, select Articles and > choose Thread by Column from the pop-up menu. This setting is > usually the most appropriate in multicolumn formats. > * To have the reading order of each article go from text > frame to text frame, select Articles and choose Thread by Text Frame > from the pop-up menu. This setting is usually the most appropriate > in single-column formats. > * To create no article threads, deselect Articles. > > Alan > > On 18/08/2010, at 6:02 AM, Christine Snow wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> First-timer here to this site...why cannot I not generate a pdf with >> both bookmarks and cropmarks? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Christine >> >> > > -- > Alan T Litchfield > AlphaByte > PO Box 141, Auckland, 1140 > New Zealand > http://www.alphabyte.co.nz > http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice >
-- Alan T Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 141, Auckland, 1140 New Zealand http://www.alphabyte.co.nz http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
