Hi Kathy, Are you choosing the Adobe PDF printer before you print to PostScript?
Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick at frameexpert.com *** Frame Automation blog at http://frameautomation.com -----Original Message----- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of kblake2 at mmm.com Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 6:58 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File I'm not sure if anyone else has previously reported this issue as I visit this list infrequently. I apologize if I am bringing up an old issue. I'm using Frame 9.0p250, and I have a coworker using Frame 7. Our normal process is to create PDFs by using the Print To File option, then distilling the .ps file. It has worked perfectly since forever, and we're ok with using that two-step process. Now, our corporate IT dept has installed new HP printers with the Universal PS driver (v5.0) and it now takes much, much longer to create a .ps file. Before it would take about 20 seconds to create a .ps file for the entire 300 page manual. Now, it takes about 5 seconds *per page* to create a .ps file. Gaaah! When we used these printers for the first time, we of course got a warning about unavailable fonts. No big deal....we've seen that before, so we let the font substitution happen, figuring that the new printer had slightly different font names and the substitution was ok. We're wondering if that corrupted our files somehow? Could the problem be the Universal PS driver? It doesn't matter if we're using FM 7 or FM 9, whether we print to Adobe PDF or make a .ps file with the HP printers....all those have the same result....slow, slow, slow .ps file creation. I've seen folks complaining on the Web about the HP universal driver. Is that part of the problem? I have both FM 7 and FM 9 installed on my PC (because it didn't force me to uninstall 7 before installing 9). The really strange part is this...I can go out on the network, find other manuals that aren't yet converted to FM 9, open those files and never get the font warning, and I can make a .ps file in FM 7 without the big slow down. Yet my coworker, who is using only FM7, continues to have the slow .ps file problem. All the printer and driver properties are locked down by IT, so I can't adjust any of those settings. Do you have any suggestions? Kathy Blake 3M Health Information Systems Documentation Dept. Tel: 801-265-4462 _______________________________________________