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Hi
I was originally working on a VDI with Framemaker 12 and Webworks 2017.1
Life was good.
Recently, I moved to VMWare fusion with Frameaker 15 and Webworks 2018.2 and I am unable to generate online help, as webworks seems to stop halfway. I tried to increase the memory on VMWare, but no use so far.. Did anyone have similar problem and can you advise me on how to fix this?
Thanks a bunch for any help.
I did ask Webworks.. and waiting for their response.
They gave me a patch to install and that didnt work. I tried to downgrade to 2017.1 and I still get the same problem.
Thanks
Meera
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I don't think you're going to find much on the FM forums about a Webworks issue - all I can suggest is that you get your FM2015 all patched up or consider moving to FM2017 or FM2019.
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Hi, Thank you so much. What do you mean FM2015 all patched up? Are there any patches for 2015 version? And where can I get those?
I am not sure if moving to 2017/2019 will resolve the issue as it seems to me like a Webworks related problem.. I was able to open all my Framemaker 12 files in Framemaker 15 and save them as PDFs just fine.
Thanks.
Meera
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There have been 5 patches to FM2015 according to Adobe - FrameMaker : For Windows - you can get them from inside FM by going to Help > Updates.
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Thank you. I will try this.
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Hi Meera,
I just did testing with 2018.2 and FrameMaker 2015 on a VMWare Workstation and didn't have any problems. The virtual machine is Win10 with 32G RAM. Watch the log as your processing to see where it's locking up - it just might be slow image conversion. Check the WebWorks Rasterizer and set it as the default printer.
Also make sure that WebWorks is installed after FrameMaker in you virtual machine. I remember problems when I upgraded WebWorks and then upgraded FrameMaker.
HTH
tom
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Thank you.
I didnt have access to install the patch. So I have asked my org's helpdesk to do it for me.
I did change the default printer now. That does not solve the problem. Reg. installation - yes I installed FM first then webworks.
But I think my RAM is the culprit.. I dont have 32 GB. Alarmingly its only 6.2GB. So again, I have asked helpdesk to increase RAM. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks a lot.
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Hi Tom
The VDI that I was using before only has 8GB RAM. Are you sure yours has 32 GB?
VMWare is only a desktop app technically and 32 GB seems too high for it..
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I increased the virtual memory to 30GB but no use. I still get the error.
I did set the Webworks Rasterizer as my default printer. But it keeps switching back to another printer even whether I keep the "Let windows manage my default printer" On or Off. How to make this change permanent?