[18616] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.17: distill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Dec 15 14:54:06 2000
Message-Id: <200012151953.OAA24691@dit.mit.edu>
To: jered@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[18611] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:53:58 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
About your report:
>What were you trying to do?
> User was trying to print to PDF from FrameMaker.
>
>What's wrong:
> FrameMaker invokes 'distill'. Distiller then prints
> a paragraph about compatibility and refuses to
> proceed until the user answers a question. distill
> has no controlling tty, so the user can't answer.
>
> The paragraph of text says "If you don't want this to
> appear, you should add an option to your configuration
> file." It fails to mention either the configuration file
> name, nor the option.
We've encountered this annoyance before and unfortunately it comes from the
distill binary (as you no doubt have figured out) so there's nothing we
can practically do about it; at least a pdf file does get printed
even if you can't select an option.
In any case the issue has been superseded in FrameMaker 6, which has been
around for some time- you don't get this verbiage in the new version of
distill. To use it now: "add frame; maker -ver 6.0.0"; it will become the
default during IAP.
They still don't have it quite right because it prints a message:
[PDFSize] Warning: Cannot save client settings.
but this is irrelevant and can safely be ignored.
Alex
