FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

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8 total messages Started by Jason_Carter Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:32

#871

Author: Jason_Carter
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:32

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I've recently upgraded to FM 8 and am trying to print a .book that I printed successfully many times in FM 7.

I am doing a Print Book... command. When I get to a certain .fm file, I receive the message "Acrobat Distiller has stopped working." I click OK and in a few seconds, the system informs me that my .pdf was created successfully...except, it doesn't exist. (When I try to do a "Save as PDF," a .tps file is generated that is very large, but no .pdf.)

The only difference between the problematic file and the others is that it is in a different folder than the previous files. I've even tried re-creating the file from scratch.

At this point, I'm not even sure what to check to try to diagnose the problem. I am running FM 8 (p 277) on Windows Vista Business SP1. Do I need to update Distiller somehow? How can I check the Distiller version? What folder would contain a detailed log of the print attempt? (I've printed other .book files that came over from FM7 without incident.)

Thanks for any suggestions.

Re: FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

#873

Author: Sheila_Carlisle
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:47

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Have you opened and saved each chapter, and the book itself, as an FM 8 file?

Did you install the Distiller that came with FM, or do you have a separate Acrobat program (Acrobat Pro or whatever, not the free Reader).

Re: FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

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Author: Jason_Carter
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:43

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Yes I converted every file to FM 8.

I don't know what instance of Distiller was used...the computer was built by our IT staff. However, I do have Acrobat Pro v9 installed...is it safe to assume that this is the source of Distiller?

Re: FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

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Author: Van_Kurtz
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:29

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Jason,

Acrobat Pro v9 should be the source of Distiller, but make sure there is only ONE Distiller app on your computer. Acrobat does not like multiple versions on one computer.

Van

Re: FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

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Author: Sheila_Carlisle
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:49

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Elaborating on Van's post, if you already had any version of Acrobat (including the freebie Reader) or the Acrobat Pro installed on your system before FM was installed, and if the IT dept. installed FM's version of Distiller when they installed FM, then you could have a mish-mash of a Distiller installation.

I don't know if these version numbers might be different on Vista vs. XP, but fwiw, if you look for the file "acrodist.exe" (usually in Program files > Adobe > Acrobat 9) and hover your mouse over the right side of the filename, you'll see a popup window that shows version.

My WinXP, FM8 p277 installation, with the full Acrobat Pro installation and =not= the FM installed version of Distiller, shows the acrodist version number as 9.0.0.332

Re: FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

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Author: Art Campbell
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:09

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And the Reader's Digest version:

The full version of Acrobat should be installed _after_ the FM install.
If it finds a newer version of Distiller, I believe it'll leave it alone. If not, you may need to remove it manually.

Art

Re: FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

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Author: Jason_Carter
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:33

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Thanks for your suggestions. It looks like the problem was with the file itself. The last time I "created from scratch" I copied and pasted all the content into the new file from the old file and ran into problems.

This time, I really created from scratch - as in manually re-typing the entire file etc. It now prints to a PDF with no problems.

So the problem is resolved, although not exactly "solved."

Re: FM 8: Acrobat Distiller has stopped working

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Author: Sheila_Carlisle
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:28

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Thanks for letting us know your progress, Jason. For future reference, if you have odd problems with files in the future one troubleshooting step prior to recreating the file is to save the file as "MIF" format (select MIF in the dropdown box below the filename in the "Save As" dialog box) and then open the MIF and save it as .fm again.

This (sometimes) can clean out possible goblins lurking in the binary file.

Typical goblin causes are things like importing content from other sources (e.g. Word etc), or doing copy paste from other apps through the Windows clipboard, or adding/removing content that eventually just gets the file somehow "polluted".

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