TPS file is not deleted after FrameMaker creates PDFs via Acrobat 8

Jonathan:

In Acrobat Distiller, see if in "File > Preferences" there is a "Delete Log files for successful jobs" checkbox...(?)

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

Jonathan,

Save As PDF isn't a recommended way to go, apparently because it has a few quirks. Might try using the Adobe PDF logical printer and printing to that instead.

Also, there's something in the back of my mind that's half remembering that the TPS files don't get wiped if the distillation process aborts or fails. If you're really into tracking down the problem, you may want to look at the Distiller logs to see if you can correlate the leftover TPS files to failures...

Art

Hi Art,

Well, the TPS seems to be left behind only occasionnaly when using Save as PDF directly from FrameMaker.

Our bigger problem is that we are using the SDK in a propriety program our company coded to hook into FrameMaker and created PDFs through Distiller in an automated fasion.

The TPS problem shows up consistenly using this method. I guess it is more of an SDK thing, however as mentionned, I did notice left over TPS files occasionnaly using the standard Save as PDF method in Frame.

Somehow the switch from Acrobat 7 to Acrobat 8 has caused the TPS not to be deleted using our propriety program. Looks like our programmer may have to dig into the code to figure out where the problem is being caused. We figured it is a FrameMaker bug, but only those using plugins may discover it, therefore we may have to code a workaround.

Thanks for the help anyhow.

I have exactly the same setup, but there isn't a TPS left behind.

What is your process for distilling?

Art