FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs

[Carole Johnson]

What version are you using?  Do you use any conditions?

Thanks

Carole J. Johnson, 

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From:
Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com>
To:
Orly Zimmerman <orlyz at marvell.com>
Cc:
"framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Date:
11/12/2009 06:23 AM
Subject:
Re: FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs
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Returning to Orly's original post...
Item two had to do with disabling the temp and or recovery files 
genterated
from a crash. I don't think you can do that, but if the files have numbers
in the suffix, they're temporary save files. if they have the word
"recovery" embedded in them, they are try recovery files. In either case,
you can create a batch file to RUN or execute in a command window -- just
something like

del *recover*

And second, if you think the conditional text settings are triggering the
crash... I'd try saving all the files out as MIF to make sure they're 
clean
and haven't picked up any stray characters. You can do this at the book
level with a free MIF Wash utility from omsys.com -- I know it's installed
when you set up the demo of MIF2go, but I'm not sure if it's also 
available
stand-alone. Or it's one of the demo scripts that's delivered with
FrameScript.

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
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                                                              DoD 358


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Baruch Brodersen 
<baruch at technitext.com>wrote:

> 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
> >         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 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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