Gee, everyone is recommending breathing as a good first step. Maybe we ought to write a self-help book about all the benefits.
Seriously, all the supportive responses have been very calming! OK. Here are my details: 11 System configuration 1. I am using Frame 7.1. I installed the p116 upgrade yesterday, because one of the tech notes recommended it. The upgrade made no difference. 2. I am using Acrobat Professional Version 7.0.9; Acrobat Distiller 7.0.7. 3. The FrameMaker doc that is failing has existed in close to its current form since late September. I can still generate PDFs from Word without a problem. 4. MS Windows XP Version 2002, Service Pack 2 5. Old, but not ancient Dell laptop. I have been using essentially the same hardware/software system for the past two years now, with not too many problems. Have not intentionally changed or upgraded anything in that time, but I note that when Frame starts, it seems to go out to the Adobe site and look for updates. (Guess I should try to disable that feature, huh?) PDF Generation Process I am an old-fashioned kind of gal, so in order to generate a PDF, I routinely: 1. Re-generate the document. 2. Run Page-Labeler to re-paginate. 3. File, Print Book, Printer: Adobe PDF, Generate Acrobat Data (check the PDF Setup properties), Print. When this resulted in the scary Internal Error, I did try File, Save As, etc., which also resulted in the scary Internal Error. After this, I tried pre-opening a variety of the documents in the book before attempting to generate the PDF. Same error. I also tried to generate other books from my backup drive, ones that had always worked previously. Every document or book I tried to create as a PDF from Frame resulted in the same internal error. (Internal Error: 7104, 6063074, 7693891, 0) I rebooted between tries. Some excerpts from the log files resulting from the crashes: Internal Error: 7104, 6063074, 7693891, 0 FrameMaker 7.1.0 for Intel Build: 7.1p116 Window System: MSWindows Operating System: Windows NT 5.1 (major.minor.build: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2) Generated on: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:27:11 PM To file: c:\program files\adobe\framemaker7.1\FrameLog_08.01.10_15.27.11.txt Internal Error: 7104, 6063074, 7693891, 0 FrameMaker 7.1.0 for Intel Build: 7.1p116 Window System: MSWindows Operating System: Windows NT 5.1 (major.minor.build: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2) Generated on: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:25:55 PM To file: c:\program files\adobe\framemaker7.1\FrameLog_08.01.10_14.25.55.txt Please let me know if you have additional questions. -- Emily At 09:10 AM 1/11/2008, Flato, Gillian wrote: >Emily, > >Take a deep, cleansing, breath. > >Now, tell us the following: > >1. What happens right before you get the internal error? >2. What 3rd-party plugins do you have for Frame? >3. What kind of system are you using Frame on? >4. How did you generate your PDF > a. Save as PDF > b. Print to PDF > c. Print to file, then Distill > > >Thank you, > > > >Gillian Flato >Technical Writer (Software) >nanometrics >1550 Buckeye Dr. >Milpitas, CA. 95035 >408.545.6316 >408.232.5911 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emily Berk >Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:29 PM >To: framers@lists.frameusers.com >Subject: The dreaded Internal Error error meets the dreaded Adobe >support, sigh > >Hi FrameUsers: > >I don't know why I thought this list was no more. I'm glad that it is. >Please help me with my FrameMaker 7.1 (yes, I know it's old; I am too >and it's all the company I work for is willing to use and I need to be >able to generate this one little PDF sometime within the next decade). > >Following is my latest tale of woe. > >I always forget why I always get queasy before calling Adobe's tech >support. > >But then, once again, once my interaction with Adobe is complete, the >nightmare has only just begun. > >Take today, for instance. Well, it all started yesterday when I began >to get Internal Error crashes when I tried to generate a PDF, any PDF, >on any Frame file (not on Word docs) using FrameMaker 7.1. Because I >had a vague recollection of what it was like to interact with Adobe >support, I didn't try that. But I did try a LOT of other stuff. For >hours and hours. All to no avail. > >So, I decided to try to sleep on the problem, which wasn't a successful >strategy for me. I've had a number of these Internal Error issues come >up in the past and they never, ever, never go away on their own. > >Since sleep did not come, I chose to begin my Adobe nightmare early. >Called tech support and spoke with about 3 or 4 perfectly nice folks >whose English was very unclear. > >They would have to ask their questions, oh, six or seven times before I >realized that they were asking, for the seventh or eighth time, what my >customer number or serial number or product .... was. > >Eventually, (I was on hold and/or being transferred and then asked >redundant questions about 45 minutes) I get to speak with someone about >my problem. He doesn't speak very good English, but I am given to >understand that he does not DO FrameMaker support. > >So now I'm on hold again for another very long interval. > >And a guy picks up who DOES speak English. And I explain my tale of woe >-- no change on my end in terms of the software for at least 2 years. >The doc is one I've been working on since last October at least. > >I tell him the whole story and he lets me go on and on and then he tells >me, in his good English, that he doesn't know anything whatsoever about >FrameMaker. > >But assures me that the guy who next picks up with both know FrameMaker >AND be able to speak English. So I'm on hold again for -- not all that >long -- maybe another 8 minutes, but time has been ticking away. > >Then a guy picks up and yes he does speak English and implies that he >knows everything one might want to know about FrameMaker. But he knows >nothing about me. > >SO, I have to re-iterate EVERYTHING again. Customer number, phone >number, address, hair color, eye color, preferred brand of beer, product >serial number, tale of woe. > >And then, after I'd re-iterated everything, he says, "FrameMaker 7.1 is >no longer supported. You need to search the knowledgebase or buy >FrameMaker 8." > >1. THEY ALL KNEW THAT THEY WERE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO ME ONCE >THEY KNEW I WAS USING FRAMEMAKER 7.1. Why did they just not hang up on >me then? > >2. AND YET THEY KEPT ME ON HOLD/TALKING for NEARLY TWO HOURS. (I'm >guessing all those guys who didn't speak good English get paid to delay >people like me by the minute.) > >3. AND THEN THEY REFUSED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, BUT IMPLIED THAT THE >SOLUTION IS IN THE KNOWLEDGEBASE. > >4. WHICH IT ISN'T BECAUSE I'VE TRIED TO DO EVERYTHING MENTIONED IN THE >DATABASE FOR Internal Error: 7104, 6063074, 7693891, 0 > >And, no, the company I'm working with is NOT going to upgrade to >FrameMaker 8 just because Adobe did some hidden "upgrade" to 7.1 that >made it psychotic. > >Do I sound frantic? It's probably just stress. > >Anyone have any suggestions? > >-- Emily > >_______________________________________________ > > >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/gflato%40nanometrics >.com > >Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ 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.