What version are you using? Do you use any conditions? Thanks
Carole J. Johnson, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carole Johnson Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC System and Product Support Solutions 8680 Balboa Avenue (Bldg 1/MS 3-P102) San Diego, CA 92123 Work:(858)522-2846, Fax:(858)522-2330 From: Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> To: Orly Zimmerman <orlyz at marvell.com> Cc: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> Date: 11/12/2009 06:23 AM Subject: Re: FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs Sent by: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com Returning to Orly's original post... Item two had to do with disabling the temp and or recovery files genterated from a crash. I don't think you can do that, but if the files have numbers in the suffix, they're temporary save files. if they have the word "recovery" embedded in them, they are try recovery files. In either case, you can create a batch file to RUN or execute in a command window -- just something like del *recover* And second, if you think the conditional text settings are triggering the crash... I'd try saving all the files out as MIF to make sure they're clean and haven't picked up any stray characters. You can do this at the book level with a free MIF Wash utility from omsys.com -- I know it's installed when you set up the demo of MIF2go, but I'm not sure if it's also available stand-alone. Or it's one of the demo scripts that's delivered with FrameScript. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Baruch Brodersen <baruch at technitext.com>wrote: > Orly, > > This Microsoft hot fix might solve your problems. > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909 > > Best, > > Baruch > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> > wrote: > > The other thing the move may have accomplished is eliminating any network > > delays that could cause FM to time out waiting for the files to open.... > > > > One other thing you may try is opening all files in the book before you > do > > the PDF, which should also eliminate any network issues. > > > > The 2G RAM and kinda limited free space may be marginal if it's "an > > incredibly large book" ... There's a lot of file swapping and temp file > > creation involved in the process. > > > > Art > > > > Art Campbell > > art.campbell at gmail.com > > "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent > and a > > redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > > No disclaimers apply. > > DoD 358 > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Orly Zimmerman <orlyz at marvell.com> > wrote: > > > >> HI Art, > >> > >> I print directly to the postscript printer called ?Adobe PDF? which I > think > >> is supplied with FM. I do not use the SAVE AS feature, just from habit > >> (using FM from version 5) although I understand that the feature > currently > >> works in FM8 and is actually needed when I use a third party app on FM. > >> > >> > >> > >> As for my computer?s guts? > >> > >> I have 1.99GB of RAM, running at 1.83 GHz > >> > >> > >> > >> My C drive also has 20 GB of free space ? don?t know if that makes a > >> difference. > >> > >> > >> > >> **A very interesting point and solution**, =?>>>my IT fellow suggested > >> moving my files to a folder directly under my C drive, so that Adobe > doesn?t > >> have to deal with long folder names under a number of other folders. > >> > >> This seems to have solved the problem, at least for the day. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks for all your help!! > >> Orly Z. > >> ------------------------------ > >> > >> *From:* Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] > >> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:44 PM > >> *To:* Orly Zimmerman > >> *Cc:* framers at lists.frameusers.com > >> *Subject:* Re: FM crashing upon attempt to create PDF - 3Qs > >> > >> > >> > >> How much RAM and free disk space do you have? Creating the PDF eats up a > >> lot and can trigger a crash if it runs out. > >> > >> Also, you don't mention how you're doing it -- printing to the PDF > logical > >> printer or trying to use SaveAs... which I think isn't as good as > printing > >> to the Acrobat printer. > >> > >> Yes, the hotfix works and doesn't seem to break anything, so it > certainly > >> wouldn't hurt to roll it on. > >> > >> Art > >> > >> Art Campbell > >> art.campbell at gmail.com > >> "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent > and > >> a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > >> No disclaimers > apply. > >> DoD 358 > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Orly Zimmerman <orlyz at marvell.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> HI All, > >> > >> I'm working in FM8 - TCS, unstructured, on Windows XP Pro > >> > >> I have a few questions: > >> 1. Does anyone know of a way to get FM to stop creating the recovery > files > >> for when FM crashes? > >> > >> Lately, I'm working on an incredibly large book and whenever I change my > >> conditional text settings, update the book and then try to create my > PDF, FM > >> crashes. I don't need those recovery files, and would like to disable > their > >> creation if possible. > >> > >> Question 2 is whether anyone knows how to get FM to stop crashing > >> altogether when attempting to create the PDF - > >> > >> I seached the archives and came across a suggestion for a Windows Hotfix > - > >> Question 3: Have any of you used the hotfix? Does it cause any other > >> problems or does it actually fix the problem? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Orly Z. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> > >> You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > >> > >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >> > >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to > >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > >> or visit > >> > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > >> > >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. 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