I just moved to my new Vista Ult 64bit machine and needed to
bring my old(er) Freehand 10 app and files with me. I need to print
to PDFs from Freehand and cannot do so at present, could find not
tips at Adobe site either. (Using export to PDF gives me fuzzy text
and other probs, therefore I print to PDF).
From Freehand10, I select print and as printer Adobe PDF (or PDF creator from Source Forge, same problem) and the pdf creation begins, a pdf file name is requested and then comes the error message "could not complete the command because read or write access has been denied." A log file is presented on screen:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%
Stack:
false
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %
I did indeed use explorer to extra click on the destination folder and check the read write access, the check box is always blue but without a check, I de-select it anyway and choose apply. no change in behavior observed however. I am administrator and have admin rights.
I have the same error when I use the PDF maker from SOurce Forge, I tried installing Foxit (saw suggested on this site) but Foxit Creator Installer says it cannot install in 64 bit environemnt and terminates.)
Adobe does not officially support Freehand anymore, but luckily it seems to nevertheless work under vista for my uses (installed on 32bit programs), except for this print to pdf printer problem.
Advice greatly appreciated!
From Freehand10, I select print and as printer Adobe PDF (or PDF creator from Source Forge, same problem) and the pdf creation begins, a pdf file name is requested and then comes the error message "could not complete the command because read or write access has been denied." A log file is presented on screen:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%
Stack:
false
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %
I did indeed use explorer to extra click on the destination folder and check the read write access, the check box is always blue but without a check, I de-select it anyway and choose apply. no change in behavior observed however. I am administrator and have admin rights.
I have the same error when I use the PDF maker from SOurce Forge, I tried installing Foxit (saw suggested on this site) but Foxit Creator Installer says it cannot install in 64 bit environemnt and terminates.)
Adobe does not officially support Freehand anymore, but luckily it seems to nevertheless work under vista for my uses (installed on 32bit programs), except for this print to pdf printer problem.
Advice greatly appreciated!