Hi, I noticed that already in FrameMaker 6, once a year. Therefore "Save as PDF" cannot be the cause. As Dov and others mentioned rebooting fixed that.
Best regards Winfried > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Auftrag von Dov Isaacs > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. März 2006 23:37 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Karen Mardahl > Cc: framers@frameusers.com > Betreff: RE: Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files > Wichtigkeit: Hoch > > > I will confirm that I have seen this situation every > so often and that the ONLY solution is to reboot your > computer. (By "this situation" I mean oddball results > when using "save as PDF" including but limited to > crashes, failures to produce any output, etc.) > > This happens on occasion when using the "save as PDF" > feature of FrameMaker and seemingly the interface between > the PostScript printer driver and the Distiller plug-in > to that driver becomes unstable. That instability is > reset by reboot. > > I cannot yet accurately reproduce this happening but > the FrameMaker development team is aware of this (and > other printing) problems. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:17 AM > > To: Karen Mardahl > > Cc: framers@frameusers.com > > Subject: Re: Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files > > > > Fred, Karen, et al. > > > > Thanks for all of the responses. sorry I didn't respond > > earlier, but just after I posted this message, my IT guy came > > down to see if he could troubleshoot - and at least I was > > able to reproduce the problem. > > > > Long story short - > > > > I will be humming along making PDFs no problem and then boom, > > all of a sudden, the PDF is either gi-normous (like over > > 2000%) or I get a series of really small pages all stacked > > vertically. Sometimes, it will "reset" > > itself without any rebooting, etc. and other times, I have > to either: > > > > 1.) Just shut down Framemaker, Distiller and PDF and then > > re-open all the apps. > > 2) Reboot the whole PC. > > > > I can't find a rhyme or reason to why it happens, when it is > > going to happen, etc. There's no magic number of generating > > PDFs or one PDF in particular that causes it. When my IT guys > > were here, the saw exactly the same thing - he generated the > > PDF six times in a row with problems, then boom, on the 7th > > time, it generated just fine without any shut down of apps, > > rebooting,etc., but then the next go-round, we had to reboot > > to get a PDF to generate. > > > > Very annoying problem, and very time consuming and hunting > > all over the place (googling, Adobe, etc.), I have found the > > exact same comments/problems but no apparent resolution > > either than to grit your teeth, take a deep breath and reboot. > > > > I wonder if Adobe will have any comments about this eventually. > > > > Thanks for all the responses - at least what I was seeing was > > validated by others! > > > > TVB > > > > Tammy Van Boening > > Senior Technical Writer > > Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. > > 303-328-4420 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.