Disappearing graphics in CMYK PDF output from Frame 12.0.3

(I thought we already had a thread about this, but I can't find it!) - but I've just run into the same problem with Frame 12 that I've read about other people having.
I have Frame 12, fully patched. With a book file selected (and all my chapter files open), I do File > Save as PDF,
choose the settings I want on "PDF Setup for Selected Files" dialog, and off I go.....
Those settings include the CMYK radio button.
I don't get any error messages, but loads of items are missing (blank) in the resulting PDF - mostly graphics, but also some coloured table border, text, all sorts of stuff really.
If I select the RGB radio button instead, everything is present (although I want a CMYK PDF!!)
What is going on? Is CMYK PDF generation just broken in Frame 12?
I seem to recall someone saying an imported .AI graphic was the culprit in their case, but my graphics are mostly all just PNG or PDF.

> ... corporate branding asks for some text and table borders to be in a Pantone colour, and whilst Frame can pass Pantone colours unchanged into a PDF if you hide them inside an EPS graphic, it can't do it for text or coloured lines.
It's close to a lost cause no matter how you do it, due to FM having deminimus color management.
Pantone colors from Frame end up downstream as just uncalibrated CMYK values, unless the object's color definition is tagged with and accompanied by the "PANTONE 123x" whatever string into the .ps of .pdf workflow (and the target app or system officially supports Pantone, and many RIPs do).
Even so, for end user convenience printing on Windows, the PDF content is still going to pass through the Windows GDI, which, despite furious CMYK handwaving by Mr.Bill's Minions, is still an RGB engine. You say, but the color printers are using CMYK inks! Yep, you get yet another color space conversion if the print path isn't Ps or native PDF.
What we've done is to figure out what the our entity colors are in sRGB space, and do all colors in RGB. BabelColor is a useful app for this task, as are one or more freebie web pages that provide sRGB equivalents for Pantone colors (but usually omit the word "pantone" entirely on their site, lest a rainbow of lawyers descend).
We then tell the distill process to tag images for color management, using IEC 61966-2-1:1999. This actually results in RGB values in EPS files with embedded profiles matching RGB colors generated by Frame (for graphics objects).
Getting Frame TEXT color to match as well aggravates the problem. You can get Distiller (and perhaps PDF rendering settings generally) to "tag everything for color management", but this turns black text into composite black, exploding the file size and slowing printing (and in the specific case of sRGB, is black still really black?). If print is your only target, and you can manage the black issue, this might be a solution (or just use some other color space, like Adobe RGB). Another possibility, where color text is limited, is to import it as EPS text from Illustrator.
There might be aftermarket tools for what's really needed, which is "tag all color objects for color management".
This is an area where some tool other than FM is usually indicated. InDesign has color management. I've never been able to figure out if Frame's ostensible DTP competitor has CM. Frame will never get CM, we are told consistently.

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