PDFs created by FileMaker 8.5 crash Mac Acrobat 8 -
12-12-2006
, 08:54 AM
Just a heads up as we discovered it here...
If you use FileMaker 8.5's "save records as...PDF" command, it
generates a PDF based on the records you are browsing, etc...
This resultant PDF file can be opened in Mac Acrobat 8 (pro and reader).
But when you try to print the file, Acrobat 8 crashes.
Windows Acrobat 8 doesn't have the problem.
We thought maybe the problem was with our custom databases, but we
generated a PDF file with one of the FM 8.5 "example" databases and had
the same issue.
Workarounds include:
1) revert back to Acrobat 7.x
2) open/print the PDF with "Preview"
3) Use FileMaker's *print* to generate the PDF -- acrobat 8 handles
that fine.
4) "print as image" with Acrobat 8 -- but that takes 10x longer.
FWIW... Bug reports are in to Adobe and FileMaker, but no idea who
will address this first (and hopefully, they just don't blame each
other and it doesn't get fixed...)
- Steve |