Re: Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-19 Thread Klaus Daube
On 18 May 2009 at 17:03, Madeleine r Dimond wrote: I received a complaint from a writer who said that FrameMaker 9 took up so much processing power that she could not make a pdf of her 700-page book, even though she could do so in FrameMaker 8. We're using Windows XP SP2, and she has 3.25 GB

Re: Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-19 Thread Madeleine r Dimond
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Combs, Richard richard.co...@polycom.com wrote: Processing power? Not likely (I'm tempted to say nonsense). How was she creating the PDF? When and how did it fail? The log file for the job (which should be in the directory in which the PDF was

Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-19 Thread Klaus Daube
On 18 May 2009 at 17:03, Madeleine r Dimond wrote: > I received a complaint from a writer who said that FrameMaker 9 took up so > much processing power that she could not make a pdf of her 700-page book, > even though she could do so in FrameMaker 8. We're using Windows XP SP2, > and she has 3.25

Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-19 Thread Madeleine r Dimond
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Combs, Richard > wrote: > > > > "Processing power"? Not likely (I'm tempted to say "nonsense"). How was > > she creating the PDF? When and how did it fail? > > > > The log file for the job (which should be in the directory in which the > > PDF was being

RE: Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-18 Thread Combs, Richard
Madeleine r Dimond wrote: I received a complaint from a writer who said that FrameMaker 9 took up so much processing power that she could not make a pdf of her 700-page book, even though she could do so in FrameMaker 8. We're using Windows XP SP2, and she has 3.25 GB of RAM. Processing

Re: Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-18 Thread Art Campbell
I'd echo Richard's nonsense comment. If nothing else is wrong (forgetting to uncheck Print to File, etc.), what actually may be happening is that her hard drive is filling up, or just the temp and swap space is constrained. If the system doesn't have enough room to create the temp files that it

Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-18 Thread Madeleine r Dimond
I received a complaint from a writer who said that FrameMaker 9 took up so much processing power that she could not make a pdf of her 700-page book, even though she could do so in FrameMaker 8. We're using Windows XP SP2, and she has 3.25 GB of RAM. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-18 Thread Combs, Richard
Madeleine r Dimond wrote: > I received a complaint from a writer who said that FrameMaker 9 took up so > much processing power that she could not make a pdf of her 700-page book, > even though she could do so in FrameMaker 8. We're using Windows XP SP2, > and she has 3.25 GB of RAM. "Processing

Can no longer make a pdf of a large book

2009-05-18 Thread Art Campbell
I'd echo Richard's "nonsense" comment. If nothing else is wrong (forgetting to uncheck Print to File, etc.), what actually may be happening is that her hard drive is filling up, or just the temp and swap space is constrained. If the system doesn't have enough room to create the temp files that it