Generate a PDF

Understand the Save as PDF functionality in Adobe FrameMaker.

There are two ways of generating PDF in Adobe FrameMaker—using the Publish panel or the File > Save As PDF menu. Both these options allow you to generate a PDF from the selected FrameMaker document or book. Additionally, FrameMaker uses the PDF setting defined in the PDF Publish Settings dialog to generate the PDF. However, in case of Save As PDF, you are given an option to specify the publish location and filename for your PDF. If you use the Publish panel, the location is specified in the Output Folder field, and the PDF filename is the name of your book or document.

Perform the following steps to generate a PDF using the Publish panel:

Ensure that the required book or document is selected in the Source Document list.
From the list of output formats, select PDF.
Configure PDF generation settings (Settings icon > Edit).
In the Output Folder location, browse to a location where you want to save the PDF.
Click the Generate Selected Output icon to generate the PDF.

Perform the following steps to generate a PDF using the Save As PDF menu:

Ensure that the required book or document is selected in the Book window.
Choose File > Save As PDF.

The Save Document dialog appears.
Browse to a location where you want to generate the PDF and provide the File Name.
Click Save.

A message containing the location of the Settings Files is displayed. If you want to make changes to the settings, use the Publish Settings dialog to do so.
Click OK.

Note: When you generate the PDF output for a document with page size bigger than A4, some content may not fit on the page and not get published properly. To prevent the loss of content, you need to add the flag UsePDFResolution=300 in the maker.ini file under the folder <%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\16>. To know more about PDF output see, Change page size.