Frame 8 trial woes

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Recently (in Frame 7.2) I had a large book with 50+ chapters, minimal  
graphics and a total page count of only about 300. I could not  
generate a PDF of the whole thing in one shot. I ended up making PDFs  
in thirds, then assembling the parts in Acrobat. A hassle, to be  
sure. FM was able to generate a complete TOC and index of the beast,  
but not a unitary PDF.


will white
monrovia ca


On Dec 22, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Emily Berk wrote:

> I have gone through and saved every chapter individually to
> PDF.  Every single one generated ok.
>
> But then when I try to gen the PDF, it only creates a text file that
> says that it fails on page 49.
>
> Sigh.
>
> This is a HUGE doc.
>
> -- Emily
>
> At 02:21 PM 12/22/2008, Emily Berk wrote:
>> Yeah, there might be some psychotic graphics somewhere.
>>
>> I'm not really familiar with the doc, since I only have seen it for
>> a few hours.
>>
>> I will try to create each chapter into its own PDF as a
>> start.  Thanks for the suggestions.
>>
>> It's only time, and -- I read this on a Celestial Seasonings teabag
>> tag:  "When God created time, he created enough of it."  Not that I
>> don't have a bunch of other ways I might want to spend the unlimited
>> time I have.
>>
>> -- Emily
>>
>> At 01:59 PM 12/22/2008, Alan Litchfield wrote:
>>> Timing :(
>>>
>>> First thing I would look for is a corrupt/badly formed graphic file.
>>> If you have any graphics in any specific chapter files, that is.
>>>
>>> So what I'd do:
>>> 1, Try to print each chapter to ps (not direct to pdf) then manually
>>> distill them using Acrobat and see which one(s) fail.
>>> 2, When it/they fail in Acrobat you will see which pages  
>>> successfully
>>> completed. The offending graphic(s) will be on the next page
>>> somewhere. You will also get an error log generated, although
>>> sometimes the messages can be somewhat cryptic unless you know what
>>> you are reading.
>>> 3, Remove the suspect(s) and repeat steps 1 and 2 until the file(s)
>>> complete successfully.
>>> 4, Replace or repair the graphics files accordingly.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, if the FM 8 files are operating without  
>>> incident on
>>> the source machine and the problem only surfaces on your machine, or
>>> files that have been exported for use on your machine, then are they
>>> using any plug ins that you do not have?
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> On 23/12/2008, at 10:43 AM, Emily Berk wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of my colleagues is working for a company that is using  
>>>> Frame 8.
>>>>
>>>> He was having some problems generating a PDF, and, guess what --  
>>>> his
>>>> doc is due today.
>>>>
>>>> First thing he tried was to export his book and all its chapters to
>>>> Frame 7.  I was not able to read a single one.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS
>>> AlphaByte
>>> PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140
>>> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Emily Berk
>> http://www.armadillosoft.com
>
> Emily Berk
> http://www.armadillosoft.com
>
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