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For users who still require FrameMaker, it is published for the Windows platform only and may be available at a discount through MIT's Adobe discount program: http://itinfokb.mit.edu/article.php?id=7516/confluence/x/EjJB
Acrobat Distiller
Used for generating PDF documents from PostScript, Acrobat Distiller is not available for Linux, and has not been supported by Adobe for some time. OpenOffice users can easily generate PDF documents using the PDF output tools built into OpenOffice. LaTeX users may want to consider pdftex, which generates PDF files from LaTeX source. For all other PostScript to PDF conversions, consider using ps2pdf which is part of the Athena release on Linux platforms.
Acrobat Professional, the successor to Acrobat Distiller, is available for the Mac and Windows platforms and may be purchased through MIT's volume licensing program. For more information, please see: http://itinfokb.mit.edu/article.php?id=8620. confluence/x/FTJB. Students are also eligible to purchase Acrobat Professional at a discount. For more information on the discount program, please see: http://itinfokb.mit.edu/article.php?id=7516confluence/x/EjJB
Risks
- Unknown dependencies on Solaris by local locker software and departmentally developed applications used by students
- Familiarity with Solaris as an operating environment, requiring learning a new environment to switch to Ubuntu-based Linux Athena
- Personal preference for Sun Solaris or Sun hardware
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