"very small pages" (WAS "Importing .swf files and creating pdfs")

[Carol J. Elkins]

I've been meaning to ask about those "very small pages" for a year; 
thanks Shlomo for bringing the subject up. Every once in awhile, I 
have the "very small pages" problem when printing to PS via the PDF 
driver  and distilling (opposite to Shlomo's Save as PDF occurrence 
of the problem). It pops up out of nowhere; I'm happily printing 
chapters in a book, I change NOTHING, and then whammo--I get 
standard-sized pages with a small thumbnail-sized PDF in the middle 
of each page. The ONLY remedy is to shut down FM, Distiller, and 
Acrobat, open them all up again, and reprint to PS. I'm running FM11, 
Acrobat 10, on Win7. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? 
It sort of feels like a memory problem, but my system has, I think, 8 
GB of RAM, so memory shouldn't be an issue. The problem occurs 
independent of any particular file or book or distiller options. Let 
me repeat--everything is printing fine and then suddenly printing 
small with no change in ANY setting. I'm just curious--it is not a 
show stopper, but it can get very annoying and time consuming.

Carol


At 11:00 AM 4/30/2013, Shlomo Perets wrote:
>Unrelated to interactive media, with FM8 or later "Save as PDF" 
>works fine and I use it as the standard way to produce PDFs from FM. 
>There are highly exceptional cases where "Save as PDF" fails (e.g. 
>producing very small pages), and then switching to PS+distill is the 
>workaround.

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