Getting FM to recognize Distiller Joboptions files

[Art Campbell]

You are on the right track -- the options location changed with
Distiller 8; FM 7 still looks in the old location.

However, you're just running into a "normal" ownership problem -- the
files or directories are probably owned by different "users."

If you can't find an Admin with root privs, you may also be able to
move it if you boot into protected mode -- just depends on what your
Windows settings are.

Art

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Wollenberger, David
<DAVID.Wollenberger at ca.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>  I've installed a new joboptions file (capdf8), but I can't get
>  FrameMaker to recognize it.  That is, if I open Distiller 8.1.0, I see
>  it in the Default Settings pull-down, and if I search my c:\ drive, I
>  can find it in c:\Documents and Settings\<my username>\Application
>  Data\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings\.
>
>  But, in FM 7.1b023, if I click Format, Document, PDF setup, it does not
>  appear in the PDF Job Options pull-down list on the Settings tab in the
>  PDF Setup dialog (Format, Document, PDF Settings). I did a search of my
>  c:\ drive for some of the files that do appear in this pull-down list
>  and found them in c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
>  Data\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings\.
>
>  One curious note: One of the files I see in my PDF Job Options pull-down
>  list within FM is capdf5, which is what I have been using.  When I
>  searched my c:\ drive for this file, I could not find it.
>
>  I thought the solution would be to copy capdf8 from the <my username>
>  path to the All Users path, but I got an error message that I "Cannot
>  copy capdf8: Access is denied." I attempted to uncheck the (grayed out)
>  read-only status of the folders within All Users, but got another error
>  message saying "An error occurred apply attributes to the file: ...
>  Access is denied.".
>
>
>  Any ideas on how I can get my capdf8 file to appear in the FM PDF Job
>  Options pull-down list?
>
>
>
>  Many thanks in advance,
>
>
>
>
>  David Wollenberger
>
>
>  ca
>
>  Senior Technical Writer
>
>  david.wollenberger at ca.com

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