Book file too big

[Lester C. Smalley]

Another thing to consider is the available free space on the drive -
FrameMaker/Distiller (along with a number of other program) has trouble
when the disk is getting full.

My rule of thumb is to try to always have 20% of the total volume size
free....  empty/clear the cache from your browser, delete 'temp' and
unneeded / duplicate / backup copies of files (assuming that you do back
them up to some other volume / media as appropriate), empty "trash" and
compact mail files, etc., get rid of .ps files for jobs that
successfully converted to PDF, and the related log files, etc.  

Depending on how heavily used the drive is, you may want to defrag it as
well, although this may take considerable time.

As a note: we distill a very large structured book, over 130 files
(extremely heavy on tables and a significant number of cross-references)
that is close to 18,000 pages (that is not a typo. The average chapter
is 120 pages and a couple are closer to 200; it's a technical reference
for a complex supply system database) - but it does take a very long
time on a 1.9 GHz system with about a GB of free disk space.

On Thursday, May 08, 2008 06:09 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:

| I often had this problem until I made sure (by automation) that the
| dreaded FNTCACHE.DAT file was deleted every time I shut the computer
| down. Since that I have not had this problem. So got to your
| C:\WINDOWS\System32\, find the file, delete it and reboot. This is a
| file that will be re-created on boot.
| I recently wrote on the list a procedure to make Windows do this
| automatically. It has worked fine so far.
| 
| Best regards,
| 
| Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
| 
| On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:04 PM, HSC Italian <twins398 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
|
| >  Hi Rick,
| >
| >  That's good news that you don't think it's maxing out ... as I have
| > 130 more files to add to it :)
| >
| >  Here's the Distiller error:
| >
| >  %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: _objdef
A290821.1 ]%%
| >  Stack:
| >  /ANN
| >  /Custom
| >  /Subtype
| >  [0 0 0]
| >  /Border
| >  [4689 2286 7299 2086]
| >  /Rect
| >  {A290821.1}
| >  /_objdef
| >  -dict-
| >
| >  %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
| >  %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
| >  Distill Time: 00 Hour(s) : 00 Minute(s) : 19.16 Second(s)
| >  **** End of Job ****
| >
| >  Thanks!
| >
| >  Heidi
| >
| > From: frameexpert at truevine.net
| > To: twins398 at hotmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
| > Subject: Re: Book file too big
| > Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:54:22 -0400
| >
| > Hi Heidi, 
| > 
| > I doubt if it is maxed out. What is the text of the error you get in
the
| > Distiller error log? 
| >
| > Rick Quatro
| > Carmen Publishing
| > 585-659-8267
| > www.frameexpert.com
| >
| > Hello Framers
| >
| > I have a book that consist of close to 500 files. The total page
count is
| > shy of 900. 
| >
| > The problem: I cannot print a .pdf. I've created mifs to correct the
issue
| > in a given file and it worked, but then a few files down it did it
on
| > another file. I mifed ALL the files, tried to print to PDF again and
| > now it stopping on one particular page. I've mifed it, I've saved
the
| > content in a new file container, blah blah. It won't go budge! 
| >
| > Is it possible this book, with umpteen xrefs to other files in the
book
| > is just maxed out? 
| >
| > Any insight is much appreciated! 
| >
| > Heidi
| 
| --
| "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
| ingenious."
|  -- Edsel Murphy, dec.


- Lester 
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