Gigantic .PS files and errors in .PDFs

[chawtrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Hawtrey)]

(Cross-posted to omsys Framers and Frame2Acrobat)

After working for several years on Win NT4 I've been upgraded to a new
PC with Win 2K.

Apart from the marked need to reboot the system much more often, I've
found I create huge .PS files when printing to the Distiller port from
Frame books.

Example: 208 MB with Win2K, 23.8 MB with Win NT.

The size of the PDF is largely unchanged, but see below.

Also I find frequent cases where:

- Distiller creates a PDF but then says "Errors in PDF - suggest
recreating with Optimize turned off" (or similar)

- I run further operations on the PDF, such as Ari's Link Checker, and
get after a while:

"Error: A file error has occurred.
0x400a0001
C:\Projects\LCheck\SOURCES\LCStuff.c, line 2771"

If I try to do anything else, I just get "A file error has occurred."

If I then try to save, I am told:
"The document could not be saved. A file error has occurred."

So I go back to my NT machine, and all goes perfectly. Final PDF size:
5,766 KB.

Has anyone any ideas?

On both machines:
FrameMaker 5.5.6, Acrobat 4.05.
Ari's Link Checker v.1.3.3
SP TimeSavers v.3.2 (with Unbloat turned on)

NT machine: 256 MB RAM
Win 2K machine: 1 GB RAM.

Charles Hawtrey,
Schlumberger, UK


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