Re: "Printing canceled by FrameMaker"

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

My guess is that Jay is right. Versions of AdobePS < 4.3 have
a 256 page restriction.

Richard claims to use "Type 1 TT fonts". What is that? Sounds like
you are sending TrueType fonts on your system to Acrobat as Type 1
unhinted outlines?

If you are using Acrobat 4.0 or are not using Acrobat at all, upgrade
the driver to AdobePS 4.3.1. This will solve your problem ASAP. And if
your output device(s) supports it, change the driver setting to send
to "Send TrueType fonts as Type 42!" Much better quality with Acrobat
and with printers that indeed natively support TrueType as Type 42.
(Note that creating PDF files with TrueType as Type 42 does NOT
restrict you from printing such PDF files on printers that don't
provide that support. Acrobat provides the proper conversion at
print time, if necessary!)

If you are using Acrobat 3.0x and you are indeed using TrueType
fonts, you CANNOT update your driver to AdobePS 4.3.1. I would NOT
advise use of the old Windows 3.x driver (AdobePS 3.1) with Windows'9X.
Too unreliable. Best bet would be to upgrade to Acrobat 4.05.

         - Dov


At 11/17/99 12:13 PM , Jay Smith wrote:
>Richard,
>
>I would be very surprised if the reasons for "Printing Canceled" have
>anything to do with the things that you changed in the document.
>
>I hope that you saved a COPY of the original FINISHED version of the
>file that would not print to PS.
>
>You gave lots of great detail on your environment, but you did not
>mention some important items:
>
>1) To create this PS file, what DRIVER are you using 
>
>2) What PPD are you using for that driver.
>
>3) What is the intended purpose of the postscript file (i.e. to Distill
>for PDF, or is it a "print file" that will be sent to an output device).
>
>MY GUESS is that you are using Adobe PS Driver 4.2.x.  Per various posts
>by Dov Isaacs in this forum, that driver has problems with PAGE COUNTS
>GREATER THAN 256!
>
>If you cannot reasonably cut your file into chunks (creating multiple PS
>files), then your options may be to upgrade to Adobe PS driver 4.3.x
>(however, from the noise in the group I would not risk my timeline on
>it) which means BUYING Adobe Acrobat 4.x -- which could take some time
>if you don't already have it.  OR you can drop back to Adobe Driver
>3.0.x.  Installing 3.0.x is tricky because (if I recall correctly) it
>will not let you install an earlier version over the later version.  (If
>I remember correctly...) I had to attempt the install and then it told
>me which files I could not overwrite; then cancel the install; manually
>remove the files; then again attempt the install.  A mess, but it
>worked.
>
>OR...I am all wrong about the whole thing.
>
>Jay
>
>"Dalbey, Richard" wrote:
> > 
> > We are using FM5.6 in Win95/98, 256 meg of RAM and large HD with 4 G of free
> > space. AGP Video card with 8 M of memory. We create our files using Type 1 TT
> > fonts and are careful to make sure the graphics are imported by reference and
> > links are all correct. We are creating a Postscript file by printing the file to
> > file. The files is 260 pages in length, 4 meg. Lots of tables and graphics. Most
> > tables are contained on one page. The few tables that run over work fine. During
> > the printing process the message "Printing canceled by FrameMaker" initially
> > appeared. This message appeared in a FM dialog box. We have tried: re-importing
> > all the graphics, re-tagged table text to standard tags that work for other
> > files. We had some text boxes inside a table. They were deleted to test the
> > process. Now the file gives blank pages after the page where the text boxes were
> > deleted.  Help! We are against a deadline and need a quick answer.
> > 
> > Please respond directly to my email address.
> > 
> > Thanks. Rick Dalbey, Sr Tech Writer
> >         Lanier Worldwide, Inc.
> > 
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