FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs

[Art Campbell]

The other thing the move may have accomplished is eliminating any network
delays that could cause FM to time out waiting for the files to open....

One other thing you may try is opening all files in the book before you do
the PDF, which should also eliminate any network issues.

The 2G RAM and kinda limited free space may be marginal if it's "an
incredibly large book" ... There's a lot of file swapping and temp file
creation involved in the process.

Art

Art Campbell
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Orly Zimmerman <orlyz at marvell.com> wrote:

>  HI Art,
>
> I print directly to the postscript printer called “Adobe PDF” which I think
> is supplied with FM. I do not use the SAVE AS feature, just from habit
> (using FM from version 5) although I understand that the feature currently
> works in FM8 and is actually needed when I use a third party app on FM.
>
>
>
> As for my computer’s guts…
>
> I have 1.99GB of RAM, running at 1.83 GHz
>
>
>
> My C drive also has 20 GB of free space – don’t know if that makes a
> difference.
>
>
>
> **A very interesting point and solution**, =è>>>my IT fellow suggested
> moving my files to a folder directly under my C drive, so that Adobe doesn’t
> have to deal with long folder names under a number of other folders.
>
> This seems to have solved the problem, at least for the day.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all your help!!
> Orly Z.
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:44 PM
> *To:* Orly Zimmerman
> *Cc:* framers at lists.frameusers.com
> *Subject:* Re: FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs
>
>
>
> How much RAM and free disk space do you have? Creating the PDF eats up a
> lot and can trigger a crash if it runs out.
>
> Also, you don't mention how you're doing it -- printing to the PDF logical
> printer or trying to use SaveAs... which I think isn't as good as printing
> to the Acrobat printer.
>
> Yes, the hotfix works and doesn't seem to break anything, so it certainly
> wouldn't hurt to roll it on.
>
> Art
>
> Art Campbell
>            art.campbell at gmail.com
>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and
> a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>                                                      No disclaimers apply.
>                                                               DoD 358
>
>  On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Orly Zimmerman <orlyz at marvell.com>
> wrote:
>
> HI All,
>
> I'm working in FM8 - TCS, unstructured, on Windows XP Pro
>
> I have a few questions:
> 1. Does anyone know of a way to get FM to stop creating the recovery files
> for when FM crashes?
>
> Lately, I'm working on an incredibly large book and whenever I change my
> conditional text settings, update the book and then try to create my PDF, FM
> crashes. I don't need those recovery files, and would like to disable their
> creation if possible.
>
> Question 2 is whether anyone knows how to get FM to stop crashing
> altogether when attempting to create the PDF -
>
> I seached the archives and came across a suggestion for a Windows Hotfix -
> Question 3:  Have any of you used the hotfix? Does it cause any other
> problems or does it actually fix the problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Orly Z.
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