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By the way, multiple processors is irrelevant in terms of performance boost here unless you are actually using CPU power with other programs concurrently, for example rendering 3D images while attempting to generate PostScript from FrameMaker or distill same with Distiller.

The fact that it takes six minutes to Distill would indicate that your linked-in graphics are fairly complex. Eighteen minutes might not be too far out of line in terms of creation of the PostScript especially if you generate "to file" instead of printing to the Acrobat Distiller printer instance, with spooling ON using the "start printing after last page is spooled option."

By the way, my best guess is that with nothing else changed, upgrading to a single 2.8 ghz Pentium 4 with current memory technology (not that of your current system) with 1 gigabyte of memory will cut your PostScript generation and distillation times to approximately 4 minutes and 1 minute, respectively. Both processes are highly CPU intensive.

- Dov