<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">There was a discussion quite a while back about the Paragraph Designer freezing if you adjusted the tabs on the ruler, rather than within the Paragraph Designer. Could that be a part of your problem?<br><br>Nadine<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 5/20/11, Karen Mann <i><kmann@i-t-tech.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Karen Mann <kmann@i-t-tech.com><br>Subject: RE: FrameMaker 9<br>To: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim.Pinkham@voith.com>, "Fred Ridder" <docudoc@hotmail.com>, "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com><br>Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 9:44 AM<br><br><div id="yiv185963054"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="yiv185963054WordSection1"><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Thank you, for your attention. It appears others have this same issue with the paragraph designer etc. </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">I have had my T5500, 64 bit, Win7 for about 6 mo. The first T5500 I purchased was crashing all the time so Dell replaced it and upgraded from a dual to a quad and added 4 g of ram to make the 12 g and upgraded the graphics card... trying to keep their customer happy.</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">I have more RAM than our old server did. Too bad Adobe is non-responsive; they should post a fix.</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">If anyone at any time finds a solution to this “Adobe” bug I would appreciate an e-mail.</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Thank you again for your time and response, I really appreciate this forum.</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Karen Mann</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">kmann@i-t-tech.com</span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> Pinkham, Jim [mailto:Jim.Pinkham@voith.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 20, 2011 6:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> Fred Ridder; Karen Mann; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: FrameMaker 9</span></p></div></div><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">And I didn't mean to overstate my response, Fred. I do appreciate what you bring to us here. I'm usually keeping a close eye on the list and try to pitch in if I suspect I can say something useful. Of course, I've been known to
miscalculate now and then :)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">Jim</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><div class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><hr width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> Fred
Ridder [mailto:docudoc@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 19, 2011 11:50 PM<br><b>To:</b> Pinkham, Jim; kmann@i-t-tech.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: FrameMaker 9</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">I didn't mean to chase you back to lurkdom, Jim. Really! I was just trying to keep things reasonably on-point. <br> <br>-Fred<br> </span></p><div class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><hr id="yiv185963054stopSpelling" width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Subject: RE: FrameMaker 9<br>Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 21:19:37 -0500<br>From: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Jim.Pinkham@voith.com"
target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=Jim.Pinkham@voith.com">Jim.Pinkham@voith.com</a><br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:docudoc@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=docudoc@hotmail.com">docudoc@hotmail.com</a>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kmann@i-t-tech.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=kmann@i-t-tech.com">kmann@i-t-tech.com</a>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx660511602-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">Astute, as usual, Fred. I'll return to lurkdom, for the time being, duly corrected. I sympathize with Karen: It's unfortunate that anyone with a setup as robust as hers appears to be has to struggle with the functionality problems she outlines.</span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><div class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><hr width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> Pinkham, Jim; kmann@i-t-tech.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: FrameMaker 9</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">I'm afraid it may not be worth very much as a data
point, because there is a world of difference between Windows XP and any 64-bit version of Windows Vista or (more likely in Karen's case because she does refer to a "new Dell") Windows 7. When the issue is the stability (or lack thereof) of an application, the specific version of the OS is likely to be at least as much a factor as any of the hardware details with the possible exception of the amount of RAM. And the migration from 32-bit to 64-bit addressing was a major change that seems to have caused compatibilty and/or stability issues with a lot of apps.<br> </span></p><div class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><hr id="yiv185963054ecxstopSpelling" width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Subject: RE:
FrameMaker 9<br>Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:53:02 -0500<br>From: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Jim.Pinkham@voith.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=Jim.Pinkham@voith.com">Jim.Pinkham@voith.com</a><br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kmann@i-t-tech.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=kmann@i-t-tech.com">kmann@i-t-tech.com</a>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">FWIW, I've been using FM 9 with these specs at work since December, and I've never run into the bug you're experiencing:</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">Dell Precision T3400</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">Win XP SP 3</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">80GB HD</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;"><br><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011">64 kilobyte primary memory cache</span><br><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011">4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache (3.3 GB usable installed memory)</span><br><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011">64-bit ready</span><br><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011">Multi-core (2 total)</span><br><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011">Not hyper-threaded</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">I'm habitually running Office 2003, Acrobat X, and Illustrator CS 5 and half a dozen other things. My FM 9 books incorporate AutoCad and Inventor graphics, often run twice as large as yours. I sometimes don't reboot for a week at a time.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">I'm skeptical of Dell's allegation in your case.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p
class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">HTH,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span class="yiv185963054ecx496303500-20052011"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:blue;">Jim</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"></span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><div class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><hr width="100%" align="center" size="2"></span></div><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Mann<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 19, 2011 5:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> FrameMaker 9</span></p><div><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Has anyone else had this issue?</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">I have a new Dell, 64 bit, 12G RAM, 500 hd – 1g video on card, graphics card Navidia Quatro 2000 card, </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Office 2010, Acrobat 9 – InDesign CS4</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">I usually run with 1 small doc open in Word and one explorer window open. </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">FrameMaker 9 (all updates) files are line art and text, 30 to 60 pages.</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">After a couple of hours of work the
panels stop working. I can click on any icon and nothing works. So have to close out files and log back in FrameMaker. It will work for a while longer and then I have to reboot and start the cycle over.</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Dell has tried everything and nothing works. They say it’s a FrameMaker bug…</span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Would appreciate any assistance, and thank you in advance. </span></p><p class="yiv185963054MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Karen M</span></p><p
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