General opinion that Adobe FrameMaker is not suitable for difficult and challenging document layouts is quite deep-rooted. Using various tricks, however, it has always been possible to design documents and export PDF files that have successfully passed data checks at printing houses, even with older versions. With FrameMaker 9, designing layouts with color has become significantly easier, because the CMYK color definitions are now available unchanged in PDF. However, so far there is no way of specifying BleedBoxes through dialogue fields. This function can be replaced by a suitable step in the work process, which we will present in this article.
In applications such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress, not only pages can be displayed, but even montage surfaces. The montage surface can be viewed directly if a graphic has been introduced on the page in the bleed. The bleed, which is an overlapping of the graphic over the page margin, is needed to compensate for unavoidable inaccuracies while printing. In this way, the appearance of a narrow, unprinted area in the page margin instead of the desired color can be avoided. In the PDF that is intended for offset printing or digital printing, additional information will be needed, namely, the details of the BleedBox and the TrimBox.
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Without further intervention, generation of PDF in FrameMaker appears to follow a purist approach: montage surfaces cannot be displayed; only information pertaining to TrimBoxes can be specified. This corresponds to the page ...
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