RE: Help request--FrameMaker 8 (with Acrobat Distiller 9) won't create apdf

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Marguerite,

At some point, you may find that a longstanding Windows best practice 
may be the most practical resolution: to reformat the disk and reimage 
it with a ground-up reinstall of the apps you use.

In many corporations, there is a corporate workstation image that can 
make this surprisingly simple.

Over time, the cruft that can accumulate on a Windows system can become 
somewhat cumulative, with problems tending to multiply.

I know more than a few very expert Windows gurus who typically will do 
this once or twice a year as something of a matter of routine.

I hope that won't be necessary, but if it is I hope you will make the 
decision before you have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to 
troubleshoot and still having to resort to this expedient.

What no one has mentioned is that you could be suffering from a file 
system failure that has corrupted something. That happens surprisingly 
often, but the effects can be very subtle. That is precisely the kind of 
thing a reimage can correct relatively painlessly.

David