FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs

[Orly Zimmerman]

HI Art,
Why would moving the files eliminate the network delays?
The folder I placed the files on are on my C drive, but they are still automatically backed up by the network - the other drive (with the longer name) was also backed up automatically.

And, I always work with my book files open - I want to see what's happening, and if I goof, this way I can just not save. Also, each time I made a change to the book files (changed conditions or updated the book) I would save the files at that step - perhaps this guzzled the  precious free virtual memory.

Lastly, how would I know if my memories are marginal? I work on a laptop and the IT people told me that I could not get more than 2G RAM on the laptop -  I would need to move to a PC.

Thanks,
Orly.

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From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:24 PM
To: Orly Zimmerman
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs

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

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Orly Zimmerman <orlyz at marvell.com<mailto: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**, ===>>>>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.
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From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com<mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:44 PM
To: Orly Zimmerman
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto: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

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 "... 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<mailto: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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