Hi Bodvar, have you tried switching off "Generate Tagged PDF" in PDF Setup > Tags?
Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor ____________________________________ Scripto bvba Asselsstraat 65 9031 Gent Belgium T: +32 494 12 01 89 F: +32 9 366 50 32 BTW (VAT) BE 0886.192.394 skype: yves.barbion ____________________________________ Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as yves.barbion 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/yves.barbion%40gmail.com > > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >