Framemaker 9 Graphics Show Grey Boxes Half way through Doc

Question

Hello,
I am using Framemaker 9 (service pack 2, windows XP) with a ~5000 page document, thie document has lots of embedded Graphics.When create a PS (postscript file) about half of the way through the PDF file the figures  Show Grey Boxes. This occurs using either the Framemaker save as PDF file or when printing to a PS. An error message apprears "Cannot Print Some Imported Graphics", I click OK and the systems creatse the PS file.  When viewing PDF the grey boxes appear.  Now for the interesting anomaly, I delete the first 2500 pages and the PS and PDF files are fine. If I delete only 1000 pages the grey boxex occur later in the document.
Any help on this is appreciated,
Nick
PS
same error occurs on computer with Service pack 3

Answer 1

Ah, 1gig of RAM. Unfortunately I don't think that's going to cut it in FM9, not for that large a size document. You might try rebooting, not turning on any other app like e-mail, and see if you can manage it then, but I'd doubt it.
Even though the job works with FM7,   FM 9 has substantially more features that could definitely require more  RAM, e.g. the unicode features alone.
Here's a comparison in Task Manager on my XP system:
FM9 running without a doc open shows as approx 110,320 K
FM7 running without a doc open shows as approx 34,508 K
Other questions:
in your FrameMaker Preferences (File > Preferences) do you have "Save FrameImage..." turned off? If not, that will add exponentially to the memory use. A couple of other things that might save some memory:
FM automatically loads the Windows Character Map app. You can find it listed in your Task Manager. To save some memory you can disable this, following info in this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/click.jspa?searchID=3832601&objectType=2&objectID=2325331
AND, here's another REALLY important thing to test: you want to test using FM without any of the Workspaces open. The workspaces definitely add time and memory usage in FM9. Doesn't matter whether you actually use any number of variables or markers or whatever in the doc, just the work that FM has to do to scan the entire doc to update these panels takes an enormous amount of effort.
Being sure that all the workspaces are really closed can be a bit tricky; I'll post instructions in a separate post.
Sheila