Re: Cannot Write To Specified Print File

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

Wiping your system would be an extreme case of "reinstallzheimers"
disease! Unnecessary. Amazing how those IS folks use that strategy
when they cannot figure out what is going wrong. (At Adobe years ago,
we had a technician who was even worse. He was always replacing PC
motherboards and processors. His dump of "no good" motherboards was
used by a number of employees to fully equip them homes with computers
for everybody. That technician is obviously no longer with us.)

First of all, I assume that you are writing to a watched folder because
you are running FrameMaker 6 and producing PDF from a book. Otherwise,
you should be using the Acrobat Distiller printer instance as G-d meant
it to be used to directly feed the Distiller via the PDF port.

Secondly, remember that the file port MUST have the name "FILE:" not
"FILE" (obviously without the double quotes). If you are missing the ":",
it doesn't work. Several users with this problem forgot the ":" and
remedying that omission fixed the problem.

        - Dov 


At 1/31/2003 11:31 AM, rinch@Inficon.com wrote:
>A colleagues computer is giving our IS department some real headaches.
>
>Using FrameMaker 6.0p405, and having set up the Acrobat Distiller Printer
>instance per Dov's oft repeated advice, every time he tries to print to a
>Watched In Folder via the Distiller Printer the immediate response is
>"Cannot Write To Specified Print File". However, if he uses any other
>printer available on the network, the PS file is made and Distills
>properly, being left as a PDF in the out folder. But, he gets some weird
>results using the various printers on our network, and, would prefer to
>follow Dov's advice to use the Distiller Printer Instance. All the other
>FrameMaker users here have set up and regularly use the Distiller Printer
>Instance with excellent results. But, this one computer just won't
>cooperate with us.
>
>IS has tried removing and adding the FILE port. Nope. Tried connecting the
>Distiller Printer Instance to another Port (LPT1, LPT2). Nope. Did some
>sort of a Windows 2000 "Fix IT" program. Nope. Tried uninstalling then
>reinstalling FrameMaker. Nope. Tried unistalling Distiller 4 and Installed
>the full version of Acrobat 5. Unistalled/Installed Distiller Printer
>instance. Nope. Uninstalled FrameMaker again, Unistalled Distiller,
>Unistalled Distiller Printer Instance. Ran Scan Disk and Defrag.
>Reinstalled FrameMaker 6, Distiller and Distiller Printer. Nope. Hmm. (I
>forget the name Dov gives the uninstall, reinstall disease, but our IS
>group has it.) But, still, if he chooses another printer on the network, he
>can create a PDF, but if he chooses the Distiller Printer, the message
>"Cannot Write To Specified Print File" is displayed.
>
>Now IS wants to take his computer, wipe the hard drive clean, and reinstall
>everything starting with Windows 2000. I guess this seems to be the next
>logical step, since they have completely run out of ideas and are totally
>perplexed.
>
>Here is the computer information: Compaq DeskPro x86 Family 6 Model 8
>Stepping, 3, AT/AT compatible, 130,608 KB RAM. Microsoft Windows 2000
>5.00.2195, Service Pack 2.
>
>My question to the group is, has anyone else seen this problem before. And,
>if you did, what did you do to correct the problem?
>
>Thanks for your time,
>Richard


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