[Framers] slow-scrolling images

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Sat Apr 9 12:41:43 PDT 2016


FrameMaker users Windows print services, and they don't do anything like that.

FrameMaker's default printer should always be set to Adobe PDF.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography> wrote:
> Thanks for jogging my foggy memory, Mike. I think this idea may only have
> been pertinent to UNIX systems, and IIRC it was fixed, but it's worth a
> mention in case it sparks other ideas. One particular new or updated FM
> release long ago caused interminable delays in opening a document, for some
> users, the discovered cause was revealed to be a change in FM's UNIX
> configuration files that required verifying that all specified printers in
> the user's account were actually available on the network, because FM's
> formatting routines relied on information supplied by a printer's
> configuration files. So, on a network with lots of printers at lots of
> locations, opening a document depended on lots of back-and-forth network
> traffic.
>
> It's just a guess, but perhaps some recent change is now encountering a
> similar delay, checking resolution of graphics and the ability of
> identified printers to manage those settings, or perhaps Acrobat watched
> folder settings, etc.


More information about the Framers mailing list