Bloated PDFs from FrameMaker 5.1.2-5.5.6

Affects: FrameMaker / FrameMaker+SGML 5.1.2 - 5.5.6, all platforms

Description:

Typical FrameMaker 5.5x files converted to PDFs are on the average 25-30% larger than PDFs produced from earlier FrameMaker versions.

Workaround:

(none)

Available Fix:

• FrameMaker 6.0 has a new "Optimize PDF" function - see review of PDF-related aspects in FrameMaker 6.0 for more details
• MicroType's SP TimeSavers/UnBloat

Additional Info:

• TimeSavers Manual - UnBloat
• FrameMaker 5.5x Creates Larger PDF Files Than FrameMaker 5.0 -- 5.2 (ATN 321354)
  Note: suggested 5.5.6 fix ("Solution 1") results in bad links

Reported by: Shlomo Perets

Date Reported to Adobe: (legacy)

Version 1.1, May 15, 2001