Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

[Art Campbell]

I'd echo Richard's "nonsense" comment.
If nothing else is wrong (forgetting to uncheck Print to File, etc.),
what actually may be happening is that her hard drive is filling up,
or just the temp and swap space is constrained. If the system doesn't
have enough room to create the temp files that it needs to produce a
PDF, it'll be swapping things out and that'll slow down the process.
Much more likely than eating too much RAM or CPU cycles.
Art


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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard.combs at polycom.com> wrote:
> Madeleine r Dimond wrote:
>
>> I received a complaint from a writer who said that FrameMaker 9 took
> up so
>> much processing power that she could not make a pdf of her 700-page
> book,
>> even though she could do so in FrameMaker 8. We're using Windows XP
> SP2,
>> and she has 3.25 GB of RAM.
>
> "Processing power"? Not likely (I'm tempted to say "nonsense"). How was
> she creating the PDF? When and how did it fail?
>
> The log file for the job (which should be in the directory in which the
> PDF was being created) shows which pages were successfully processed,
> when the process failed, and what error occurred. That information is
> necessary for the list to provide any meaningful suggestions.
>
> Richard
>
>
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