Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File

[kblake2 at mmm.com]

Thank you for your rapid responses to my post. I apologize for the delay 
in my response. Luckily I didn't have any need to make pdfs in the 
interim. 

I do finally have a solution in place that seems to be working for now. My 
IT dept told me to install PDFCreator. The only hitch is that I still have 
to go through the .ps file process to achieve the 508-accessible 
requirement for some of our docs. I tried going straight to PDF with 
PDFCreator, but I got errors about Unicode mapping when I ran the 
Accessibility checker within Acrobat 8. So...it's ok with me if I have to 
make a .ps file first. I'll gladly do that if it will help me side-step 
508 issues. 

Richard, regarding your suggestion of using Save As PDF....it didn't work 
for me. It tells me I need Distiller 5.0.5 or higher, and that confuses me 
because I've got Distiller v8 that came with Acrobat v8. 


Kathy Blake
3M Health Information Systems
Documentation Dept.
Tel:  801-265-4462



From:
<rinch at Inficon.com>
To:
kblake2 at mmm.com
Date:
04/19/2010 05:26 AM
Subject:
Re: Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File





Regards,
Richard

Why are you using print to file? FM9p250 Save As PDF works great as long 
as you have chosen the Adobe PDF printer instance (install SetPrint). 

I'd avoid universal PS drivers and especially HP printer drivers like the 
plague. They will only give you headaches. 

In FM9, Save As PDF with the Adobe PDF printer active is the way to go. 
You may also need to install the MicrosoftHotFix if you are running 
WIndows XP. I've got HotFix and SetPrint installed on my WinXP system and 
routinely create PDFs of 500-600 page graphics intensive manuals with no 
problems using Save As PDF. This process is much better, and faster, than 
my old FM6 days when I, too, used Print To File. 

Richard 




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I'm not sure if anyone else has previously reported this issue as I visit 
this list infrequently. I apologize if I am bringing up an old issue. 

I'm using Frame 9.0p250, and I have a coworker using Frame 7. Our normal 
process is to create PDFs by using the Print To File option, then 
distilling the .ps file. It has worked perfectly since forever, and we're 
ok with using that two-step process. Now, our corporate IT dept has 
installed new HP printers with the Universal PS driver (v5.0) and it now 
takes much, much longer to create a .ps file. Before it would take about 
20 seconds to create a .ps file for the entire 300 page manual. Now, it 
takes about 5 seconds *per page* to create a .ps file. Gaaah! When we used 

these printers for the first time, we of course got a warning about 
unavailable fonts. No big deal....we've seen that before, so we let the 
font substitution happen, figuring that the new printer had slightly 
different font names and the substitution was ok. We're wondering if that 
corrupted our files somehow? Could the problem be the Universal PS driver? 

It doesn't matter if we're using FM 7 or FM 9, whether we print to Adobe 
PDF or make a .ps file with the HP printers....all those have the same 
result....slow, slow, slow .ps file creation. I've seen folks complaining 
on the Web about the HP universal driver. Is that part of the problem? 

I have both FM 7 and FM 9 installed on my PC (because it didn't force me 
to uninstall 7 before installing 9). The really strange part is this...I 
can go out on the network, find other manuals that aren't yet converted to 

FM 9, open those files and never get the font warning, and I can make a 
.ps file in FM 7 without the big slow down. Yet my coworker, who is using 
only FM7, continues to have the slow .ps file problem.

All the printer and driver properties are locked down by IT, so I can't 
adjust any of those settings. Do you have any suggestions? 


Kathy Blake
3M Health Information Systems
Documentation Dept.
Tel:  801-265-4462
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