System rebuild - can not print book

[Pete Rourke]

Thanks Fred for your response.

 

I do rebuilds on my system when performance degrades (my cobwebs).

 

I actually use Ghost which I update 1/year for a total system rebuild. Then
I have a shell script that runs all of the updates, but in this case, I had
not put the Framemaker 8 patch 266 in. Duh!

 

Cheers

Pete

 

 

 

 

From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:31 AM
To: pete at rourke.org
Subject: RE: System rebuild - can not print book

 

Cobwebs seldom cause real problems. The mere presence of a 
bunch of long-dead junk on your hard drive is no reason for 
concern. Back up, defrag, and get on with business.
 
Spending days reinstalling applications and wading through all
the necessary post-CD updates and patches and then working
through all the pesky compatibility issues *is* a problem. Even
with a fully current backup of document and data files, restoring
your working environment on a clean base installation after a 
hard disk failure will completey destroy your productivity for
at least a couple of days and likely compromise it to some extent
for a week or more. Voluntarily putting yourself in such a situation
just to "clean out the cobwebs" seems really ill-advised, and I
for one would *never* do this unless I really *had* to (due to
OS corruption or some virus/worm/trojan horse infestation 
that can't be cured by any other approach). I've got much
more useful things to do than to waste time looking for troubles
that don't exist until you start looking. 

> From: pete at rourke.org
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: System rebuild - can not print book
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:19:34 -0700
> 
> Ok, so I'm thinking I am a total stooge.
> 
> 
> 
> I have FM8 XP Pro on Desktop and primary = laptop.
> 
> I did a flush and fill on laptop to clear out the cobwebs.
> 
> 
> 
> I replaced FM8 and Adobe PDF printer, and the entire FM book directory,
all
> fonts and images.
> 
> >From the freshly rebuilt laptop, FM comes up fine with book, all print to
> PDF settings are identical to functioning desktop, but when I try to
> generate PDF, I get:
> 
> %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
> 
> %%[Page: 1]%%
> 
> %%[Page: 2]%%
> 
> %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: Rect ]%%
> 
> 
> 
> I can reach across the network and open and print the same book from the
> desktop, so I'm thinking maker.ini files or something.
> 
> 
> 
> I am not a code person or script writer, and I'm NCAA (No Clue At All)
> 
> 
> 
> Did I miss something on the re-install???
> 
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> 
> Ducking for cover
> 
> 
> 
> Pete Rourke
> Chandler, AZ
> 
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