Converting Documents to PDF

When you convert FrameMaker files to PDF, you must be concerned with two major components of this task. First you have to determine how the source information is output to PDF with regard to document settings. Then you move on to create the PDF file based on those configurations.

After you have the PDF setting that you want, you have these three methods with which to perform the conversion to PDF:

  • Print to PDFWriter

  • Using Save-As

  • Manually Distilling

In this section, you find out how to set up files before converting to PDF and explore all three methods of conversion. Keep in mind that using PDFWriter is not recommended for use with FrameMaker. However, I review it briefly.

PDF Setup

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