Speed up PDF distilling in Framemaker

Hi, recently we faced a problem that distilling framemaker documents into pdf took really long time. We have large maps in documents so it could be understood. But, we tried alternative solutions. First saving the FM document into postscript. That wasn't quick also :) But what was interesting is the fact that to converting the postscript into pdf was in a reasonable time.

What is framemaker doing that takes so long?

After analyzing a examining we found out that when distiller is waiting with text "Relocating files..." framemaker is doing something with the pdf. The responsible was the fmpdfreflow.dll. This library does some postprocessing, called reflowing the document. We don't really need this feature so we needed to disable it somehow.

We found no menu option to do this. But fortunately there is a framemaker initialization file called maker.ini. By editing this file you can remove or comment the line when this library gets loaded.

The result? The pdf distilling is faster by cca 60-70%. The resulted pdfs are bit smaller and the flows we don't care ;-)

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