FM Error: "Cannot write to specified print file"

[Art Campbell]

Check the available space on his partition....
Also, I don't remember if that version of Acrobat used a temp
directory of its own or not, but that may also have a size limitation
on it.

Art

On 8/8/06, Roger Fienhold Sheen <infotexture at gmail.com> wrote:
> Framers,
>
> A colleague of mine is receiving the "Cannot write to specified print file"
> error message whenever he tries to print to a PostScript file using Acrobat
> Distiller (FM 6.0, Acrobat 5.0, WinXP).
>
> I assumed this error was caused by spurious read-only permissions in the
> project folder, but changing the folder permissions via the Properties
> dialog didn't seem to "stick". (There is an article on this issue in the
> Microsoft Knowledge Base <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549/en-us>.)
>
> I tried printing to PS from a new file in a different location, but got the
> same error message on his machine. I can print these files to PS on my
> machine, so it appears to be a problem specific to his computer.
>
> Before I follow the "attrib" command line workaround suggested in the KB
> article, I just wanted to ask if any of you have any other suggestions.
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight,
>
> Roger
> _______________________________________________



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