FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs

[Baruch Brodersen]

Orly,

This Microsoft hot fix might solve your problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909

Best,

Baruch

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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