fh mx - advanced printing options disappear

[Ama design webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

i am using freehand mx in osx and having problems with printing on canon s9000
inkjet printer... after choosing print from file menu, i go down the pop-up menu to
"freehand mx" options, and click "advanced" and all i get is a small preview window
instead of all the ppd and other options i should have going on there. i cant even get
crop marks on my print like this! if i choose "adobe pdf" as my printer all these options
come back, but they wont work on my s9000. any ideas?

[Judy Arndt]

Advanced print options are only available for Postscript printers. Are you
using Postscript RIP for this printer?

Judy Arndt

Ama design wrote:

> i am using freehand mx in osx and having problems with printing on canon s9000
> inkjet printer... after choosing print from file menu, i go down the pop-up
> menu to
> "freehand mx" options, and click "advanced" and all i get is a small preview
> window
> instead of all the ppd and other options i should have going on there. i cant
> even get
> crop marks on my print like this! if i choose "adobe pdf" as my printer all
> these options
> come back, but they wont work on my s9000. any ideas?
>
>
>

[Armadillo]

> Advanced print options are only available for Postscript printers. Are you
> using Postscript RIP for this printer?

> > instead of all the ppd and other options i should have going on there. i

cant

> > even get
> > crop marks on my print like this! if i choose "adobe pdf" as my printer

all

> > these options
> > come back, but they wont work on my s9000. any ideas?

I have Canon S9000 too. I get cropmarks etc. by printing first to a pdf file
(requires Acrobat Distiller) and then print it from Acrobat.

You can get quite reliable proofs printing directly from FreeHand too but
you have to have your color management settings right.

Jukka

[theand webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have the same problem and i AM using a postcript printer and in fact various different ones. My problems started when i upgraded to panther from jaguar, before this all was well and i had all the advanced options now they are all gone and freehand gives the impression that it thinks i'm printing to a none poscript printer.

This is completely unacceptable as it is a key feature on the print side.

It's not too much to ask that macromedia tests freehand with OS X 3 before releasing MXa, they must have had developer copies of the OS.

Andy.

Illustrator CS works fine btw