PDF Import

[Simon BUCH]

Brad,

I have found in the past that some anti-virus suites can be overzealous 
and serious affect printing.   The worst offender is Microsoft Security 
Essentials, where printing FrameMaker documents that contain referenced 
PDF files takes a significantly long time.

You might want to try adding a process exclusion to your anti-virus 
product to ignore FrameMaker.exe, and AcroDist.exe too.

When I switched the antivirus product [from MS security to AVG 
professional] on the offending machine, printing those documents was 
achievable.

YMMV.

Regards
// Simon BUCH



On 16/04/2013 11:58, Brad Anderson wrote:
> I've been running several automated tasks through FrameMaker.  All image formats convert to PDF fairly quickly EXCEPT PDF files.  If I import pages of separate PDF files into a FrameMaker document, converting to PDF slows to a crawl.  I'm curious why this happens.
>
> The latest try is a 200+ page document (with roughly 6 "thumbnail" PDF pages per page).  It took all weekend (> 48 hours to create a PS file).  The PostScript file failed to distill.  I'm curious what can speed up the process and make it less likely to fail.
>
> Converting several hundred pages of PDF files to a different format is not a good option here also because of time and maintenance.
>