Last Modified: May 30, 1997

You do not create camera ready copy. Rather, you create a PostScript file, which Al Tournas will ftp to our print vendor. Our print vendor will use your PostScript file to generate a master copy. Al will deliver the master copy to you, and you will look it over. Then, if everything is okey-dokey, you give Al the thumbs up and he tells the print vendor to make a whole bunch of books with pretty covers. Then, you hand out these books to your friend and he laughs and laughs. Then you say, "Why are you laughing? This was meant to be a profound statement about life. It's about you and me. It's about us." And he says, "Oh, that's not why I was laughing. I was laughing because the book reminded me of a joke. What do you call four tech. writers who get run over by a truck?" "Er uh, what?" you say. "A good start," he says, and he giggles some more. And then you remember that you could have been a really top notch virologist or classicist or something and you remember a little thing called ambition and wonder where it disappeared off to. And then you get all fired up and say, "Damn it, I'm going to live out those dreams. I'm still young. I could still be a virologist or classicist or something. Yes, I'll do it, damn it." And then the phone rings and your project leader wants to know where the release notes are and before you know it, your little existential crisis is but a tiny footnote in the three-columned table of your life.

Follow these steps to create the PostScript file from a Windows-95 machine.

1. In FrameMaker, open your book file.

2. In FrameMaker, select File->Print.

3. FrameMaker displays the Print Files in Book menu. The Don't Print side should be empty, for example:

   

   Select Print.... Click the button.

4. FrameMaker displays the Print Book menu. Look for Printer: near the bottom of this menu. Click the Setup... button.

5. The Print Setup menu appears. Set the printer Name to Apple LaserWriter Plus. The completed menu should look like the following:

   

6. Click the button.

7. FrameMaker displays the Apple LaserWriter Plus Properties menu. The top of this menu shows the following three tabs.

   

   Select the PostScript tab.

8. Set the PostScript Output Format: to PostScript (optimize for portability - ADSC)

9. OK your way back to the Print Book menu.

10. In the Print Book menu, look for the the text field just to the right of Print Only to File:. In this text field, enter a pathname on your C drive, for example, C:\MYBOOK.PS.

11. In the Print Book menu, make sure that:
    • The box to the left of Print Only to File: is checked.
    • The All button under Print Page Range is checked.
    • Odd-Numbered Pages is checked.
    • Even-Numbered Pages is checked.
    • Spot Color As Black/White is checked.
    • Generate Acrobat Data is not checked.

    The completed Print Book menu should look something like the following:

    

    Click the button.

FrameMaker generates a PostScript file and writes it to the pathname you designated in Step 6.

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Beware: Do not use the generated PostScript file as input to Distiller.

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