FAQ: Acrobat Distiller 5 hangs when printing from RPM

Problem: When using a filter queue to call Acrobat Distiller, the first job is distilled properly. Subsequent jobs fail to be opened in Distiller and stay in RPM in a Wait state.

Answer:

The most recent versions of RPM, starting with 5.0.70.6 and continuing with 5.1, has idle time processing for filter programs. By default, if the program has been idle for ten seconds, it will be terminated. We had the Adobe Distiller problem in mind when we added this.

In prior versions:

Acrobat Distiller 5 has some new command line switches that were either not available or not required in previous Distiller versions. Distiller 5 should be called similar to the following example:

	x:\path\to\acrodist.exe /N /Q filename
  • The /N option tells Distiller to start a new instance of Distiller. This assures that Distiller will be started fresh and will not try to wait for previous Distiller instances to finish processing.
  • The /Q option causes Distiller to quit as soon as the file has been processed.

For more command line switches in Distiller, refer to www.adobe.com.

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