Has anyone ever used pdf995 to create PDFs from FrameMaker?

Subject: Has anyone ever used pdf995 to create PDFs from FrameMaker?
From: "Melissa K. Saumier" <msaumier -at- inkra -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:31:36 -0700


Hello,

I've been asked to look into using pdf995 to create our PDFs. It's a freeware (or a pretty cheap license if you cannot stand popups) that seems to create PDFs just like you would create them with Acrobat. Our department needs additional Acrobat licenses, and when I placed the PO, I was asked to look into this alternative. Other departments in the company use the software to create PDFs from Word documents, and it seems to work fine.

My concern here is using the product with FrameMaker (we are using v6.0). I did a quick test, and pdf995 doesn't recognize the .book as being one document, so it creates a separate PDF for every chapter. OK, that's a big problem. Has anyone tried this tool with Frame? What type of issues did you come across? Can it handle conditional text? Text insets?

The pdf995 freeware sounds like a wonderful tool to create simple PDFs from Word or Excel, and I would be tempted to try this for my personal use, but to publish our documentation? Books that can be up to 900-pages long?

Here's the link to the Software995 site, if anyone is interested:
http://www.pdf995.com/index.html

Cheers!
Melissa Kucbel-Saumier
Technical Communications Manager
Inkra Networks
" http://www.inkra.com
* (604) 430-2700 #136
* msaumier -at- inkra -dot- com


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