FM 7.1 and Acrobat 7 - with huge files

[vnhjvnj]

When I try to make a classical pdf from a book, for exemple the files of my
actual book take about 1 Go.

With such "huge" file, and only since FM 7.1+Acrobat 6 first and now Acrobat
7 Pro, I encounter Postcrip error when the file are large (but around only a
500 pages document).
Even Distiller can't make a .pdf file from the .tps one generated by FM with
the save as... pdf command. Sometimes, I succeed only in putting this .tps
file into Distiller which generate the .pdf File but only sometimes.
When I re-install FM, no difference.

It's a recurrent problem with large files and FM 7.1. "In the old days",
with FM 5 or 6, I have done larger PDF files... I have disk free space and
large memory 2Go. My computer is recent -bi-xeon processor). I use FM since
version 3, so I'm "experimented".

Thanks for each idea.

[Thomas Michanek]

Are you saying that the FrameMaker files for your book takes up 1 Gigabyte
of disk space? That is *huge* and implies a problem in itself.
Are you perhaps importing graphics by copy (embedding)?
You should always use "import by reference" to keep the file size down.

You say you have free disk space. Just how much space is that?
Acrobat needs large amounts of disk space on the disk partition
where your TEMP files are created. For a 1 GB source file, you
will need many many GB of free disk. How large is the .tps file?

For trouble-shooting reasons, I would not use Save As PDF, but the
"traditional" method of using Print to create a PS file, and then
manually Distill that PS file. When you print the book, choose
"Adobe PDF" as the printer.

One cause for PS errors could be that the "Adobe PDF" printer is
not correctly set up. Another cause is that the source files contains
something that make the Distiller choke. If you run Distiller manually
it will display the page where the problem occurred.