[Framers] Save As PDF doesn't work first time

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

Hi, Art, et. al.

I am not on the latest version of FrameMaker anymore (stopped upgrading at FM 12), but this historical experience, as has been mentioned here before, has been different for me each time a new version of FrameMaker was released.

I had to go try _both_ Save as PDF and printing to the Adobe PDF printer to see which would work better for me. _Usually_ (and this is not definitive since I forget what worked well in each version now), "Save as PDF" worked better for me.

YMMV, of course!

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris.net at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Art Campbell
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 6:43 AM
To: Framers List <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: [Framers] Save As PDF doesn't work first time

Historically, SaveAs PDF has been problematic.
Printing to the Acrobat logical printer has been more stable and predictable.

Art Campbell
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:34 AM Tom Beiswenger < tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.com> wrote:

> This is an odd one, but might be related to running FM 12 in a Windows 
> 10 environment.
>
> When I open an FM book for the first time and then try to save it as 
> PDF, FM goes non-responsive (normal) and the little rotating Adobe 
> icon appears at the lower right hand toolbar (not normal). A "phantom" 
> pdf document eventually appears, but so does a message, "There was an 
> error opening this document. This file cannot be found."
>
> Distiller also appears in my quick start toolbar, but when I open 
> Distiller, the file shown is empty.
>
> I then close the phantom pdf document, go back to the FM book and run 
> Save as PDF again. This time it works as expected: FM goes 
> non-responsive, Distiller opens (eventually) and a progress bar 
> appears with Distiller until the document is fully generated. The 
> document -- real one this time
> -- appears and all is good.
>
> I'm starting to get used to this new behavior, but sure would like to 
> know if there is a fix for this annoyance.
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