Thank you for your rapid responses to my post. I apologize for the delay in my response. Luckily I didn't have any need to make pdfs in the interim.
I do finally have a solution in place that seems to be working for now. My IT dept told me to install PDFCreator. The only hitch is that I still have to go through the .ps file process to achieve the 508-accessible requirement for some of our docs. I tried going straight to PDF with PDFCreator, but I got errors about Unicode mapping when I ran the Accessibility checker within Acrobat 8. So...it's ok with me if I have to make a .ps file first. I'll gladly do that if it will help me side-step 508 issues. Richard, regarding your suggestion of using Save As PDF....it didn't work for me. It tells me I need Distiller 5.0.5 or higher, and that confuses me because I've got Distiller v8 that came with Acrobat v8. Kathy Blake 3M Health Information Systems Documentation Dept. Tel: 801-265-4462 From: <rinch at Inficon.com> To: kblake2 at mmm.com Date: 04/19/2010 05:26 AM Subject: Re: Very slow when printing either to Adobe PDF or Print To File Regards, Richard Why are you using print to file? FM9p250 Save As PDF works great as long as you have chosen the Adobe PDF printer instance (install SetPrint). I'd avoid universal PS drivers and especially HP printer drivers like the plague. They will only give you headaches. In FM9, Save As PDF with the Adobe PDF printer active is the way to go. You may also need to install the MicrosoftHotFix if you are running WIndows XP. I've got HotFix and SetPrint installed on my WinXP system and routinely create PDFs of 500-600 page graphics intensive manuals with no problems using Save As PDF. This process is much better, and faster, than my old FM6 days when I, too, used Print To File. Richard kblake2 at mmm.com Sent by: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 04/16/2010 06:57 PM To framers at lists.frameusers.com cc 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 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as rinch at inficon.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/rinch%40inficon.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
