Hi Yves I have the same issue. The Save As PDF freezes at the very end, does not save the file and "locks up" Frame. Nothing seems to allow you to escape without doing a force quit of Frame with the task manager. This happened frequently to me when Frame 2019 first came out, after the first update. Often, just repeating the Save As again would work. The problem went away for a while, but recently came back big time. I have experienced about 20 of these freezes in the last three weeks or so, and sometimes I need to repeat three times to get a save. Very annoying! I put in a Frame bug #5253 on this issue, but since it is so random and non-repeatable I think Adobe has given up trying to find and fix it. I am gratified that someone else has this issue and not just me. Maybe there are more out there and we can raise the flag higher to get it fixed. This happens very often on the first try to create a PDF for a given new Frame file. On the 2nd try it creates an empty PDF file. I create the PDF folder and point to it for the Save As. I then have a chance to get a good PDF most of the time. Wow. I also have a 2nd big issue with Save As. When I Save As a PDF to the same folder as the Frame file, it "completes" and makes a PDF, with a message that it was successful, but the PDF is empty and flagged as corrupted when you try to open it. My workaround on this is to create a PDF folder inside the main folder and do the Save As to that folder. Save As then creates a valid PDF in the PDF folder, and strangely enough, often duplicates the PDF in the main folder as well. Weird. This is also a pain. In some cases I have had to resort to a "Print to PDF" to get a satisfactory output, which has its own issues. And I agree with you that the Publish Pod is a super pain for making PDFs with Frame 2019. It would be very nice if Adobe reverted the Save As PDF to work using only Frame Menu "PDF Setup" controls and the PDF setup functions from the print dialog. Oran
> Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:41:04 +0200 > From: Yves Barbion <yves.barb...@gmail.com> > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: [Framers] Fm2019: Stopping the Save as PDF process? > Message-ID: > <CAMa27Ew4y+xOzk_ProSz3SVYb5OW0UJe=nzwdx27v++kz5e...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi group > > I'm still not getting used to the (much too complicated) process of having > to configure the PDF settings first in FrameMaker 2019 to be able to save > my file as PDF. So I create a new Fm file and, from force of habit, I just > choose File > Save as PDF. The process then starts and I just get to see a > dialog with a progress indicator which says "Saving". But nothing else > happens next and there seems to be no way to stop this process (pressing > Esc, for example) other than doing CTRL+ALT+DEL and quitting FrameMaker. > > Or is there a way to stop this "Save as PDF" process? > > And is there really no other way to create PDF the good old quick & easy > way? Or am I the only one who doesn't like the Publish pod? > > Kudos to Rick Quatro by the way for his FREE RescuePDF script. ;-) > > http://frameautomation.com/framemaker-2019-where-is-my-pdf/ > > Cheers > > Yves _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com