Hi Rob
I love the XML features of FM11, which was the real reason why I bought
it for use at home. At work I have a subscription for TCS4. I've
experienced some problems too:
FM takes forever to print to PDF, whatever method I use. Book files that
used to print in less than 10 minutes in FM9 now take 90 minutes. That's
simply not acceptable. I have experienced few crashes; the most recent
was when comparing two documents (File > Utilities). FM just spun for
two hours, then quit without so much as a message box.
The other problem has been my Acrobat X Pro installation becoming
corrupted. Sometimes it just won't start, so I can't open a PDF at all.
Distiller disappears too. Then the Adobe PDF printer disappears, so I
can't create a PDF either. A few rounds of repair/reinstall later, it is
still unstable; I had to reinstall again today, and I expect it will
last a couple of days.
I'm hoping these issues will be addressed in a patch, but I'm not
holding my breath. Adobe seem to think that, so long as only a few
people have these problems, it's OK (they've got my money, after all).
Roger
London, Canada
On 17/09/2012 6:46 PM, Rob Shell wrote:
Dear Framers:
I felt so bad about my previous criticisms re FM 9 that I went out and
splurged on TCS4.
Let me start by saying there are some nice features and a marginal
improvement in stability in FM11.
The pods for example, seem better behaved. The PGF does not get tired and
hide. The margins can now safely be changed using the slider.
However, I have not seen anything really moving FM towards that crystal
clarity and total stability we all so need.
The print to .ps protocol seems to have changed. I cannot print a book to
postscript without a sudden crash. It does not even start printing.
I have adjusted the printer properties in nearly every configuration I can
think of. One issue is the printer or pdf converter keeps reverting to
letter when I want A4.
The strange thing is FM11 saves to pdf with no trouble at all.
I have tried with various good (FM9) book files: they all crash with FM11. I
have stripped all graphics elements in a test book file. That did not help.
Individual files print perfectly to .ps
Here is the windows crash message:
FrameMaker.exe
11.0.0.380
4ff4018d
FrameMaker.exe
11.0.0.380
4ff4018d
c0000005
000a0ed2
10a4
01cd9511f95a084e
C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\FrameMaker.exe
C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\FrameMaker.exe
b176c7f9-0109-11e2-b3df-001fc60d0248
Please, I want to be an agreeable house companion . I notice that other
people are also complaining on the web.
I cannot even find the new pdf manual but am working through some FM videos
searching for a hint of what to do.
Rob Shell
Windows Seven
FrameMaker 11 UNpatched
4 GB RAM
3 TB hd
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