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August 13, 2012
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Saving a book as PDF takes significantly more time when the file binary *.fm rater than *.mif?

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Is it possible, that saving a book (with FrameMaker 10) as PDF takes significantly more time when the file is formatted in the binary *.fm rather than the *.mif format?

We have books (+160p) that take about 20 min to be saved as PDF, whereas the same book in MIF format can be saved as PDF within about 4 minutes. Is this a known issue?

Or could that be a problem with our books?

Does anyone know how to speed up the process (how to tweak) or are there any special adjustments in the books or documents that might slowdown the process of saving them as PDF?

The distiller seems not to be the problem. The distiller takes equally long for both formats.

best regards

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    August 13, 2012

    Strikes me as peculiar. I would expect that FM is rendering from the data structures in memory, which I would expect to be essentially identical whether originally opened as .fm or .mif.

    If return-to-UI time is important, the fastest path is:

    print to local .ps file

    Distill separately.

    And it sounds like you have the full Acrobat product, and thus have full Distiller.

    I don't have sufficient experience with Print-to-PDF vs. Save-as-PDF to opine on potential time differences for those paths.

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