A Living Text

I am getting increasingly frustrated with FrameMaker 8. It’s a nice improvement over Frame 7 in a lot of ways, but with one huge Achilles heel: it crashes when trying to create PDF’s. I have tried five ways to Sunday to save as PDF, and no matter what I do, it crashes and fails to convert. Once in a great while I can get it to convert, but then I can’t duplicate the effort, and it crashes some more.

I would think that folks from Adobe who make both Frame and Acrobat would be able to master these programs interfacing with each other, but it’s not looking that way. In this day and age when everything from Apple Pages to Google Docs to OpenOffice Writer instantly generate PDF’s at a click, it is hard to believe that a major software release from Adobe is so crippled. I really need it to start working soon.