I am starting to get annoyed with FrameMaker. (Sorry for a lengthy message).
On a few occasions I have plagued the list with my complaints about FM (mainly 7.2) crashing on printing a book to ps. I have now spent half the day trying to produce an online PDF with bookmarks. No problem printing to ps without bookmarks, so we have that one in the clear. It started by FM crashing on a certain file (chapter 3) on a specific page, no matter whether I had the files open or not. Having them open only added the extra work of removing the recovery files. Having removed these three times, I went for the closed files printing. Also I MIF-washed the files but go no better results. I tested the "offending" file by itself and it printed to file with bookmarks ok, but printing from the book, it always crashed FM at the same page. A couple of pages earlier, around the point where the pdf started to lack contents seriously (yes, I managed to pdf the ps part, and I also had a look at the ps in GSView which showed less content), there was a OLEd Visio file. I found the pdf and eps-ed it and replaced the graphics. Same result. I found a Xref marker on the crashing page and deleted it, and now it went a couple of pages further. I removed FM 7.2 (plus patch), restarted the PC and installed all (FM + patches) again. No change. I started a new document, imported the formats and then the contents and replaced the file. Now it went all the way down to one of the last chapters, where it crashed again with the same messages. No Xref on that page, only a table (and this file got a lot of tables). Now I did as with chapter 3, started a new document, copied etc. and started the printing again. And what now. Now I got as far as to the same page in chapter 3 as in the first tries. I am out of guesses. What can I do? And why cannot FM give any humanly understandable hints? For 8.0, why not add internal checkpoints that tells us what exactly is causing the crashing? It should not be that difficult when the print process hits an offending item to have the application point that out. Is there a malfunction in the Xref marker, is the graphic not kosher, etc. Any help out there, please? I am going home now. Will check the mail in the morning. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic. http://www.airatlanta.com