Comments on: Fixing FileMaker PDF Crashes on Mac OS X

By: Michael Maher

Michael Maher — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:05:32 +0000

I am having mixed results with this. If it helps to solve it here is my experience.

I have two layout options – one includes an inserted Word doc, and the other a PNG version of the same.

Once I deleted all the AdobeFnt11.lst files I could find in the Adobe folder the Word version layout works fine, but the PNG crashes.

The unfortunate thing is that Word doesn’t reproduce well via ‘Save as PDF’, but does via print to PDF using Distiller. The PNG reproduces well via ‘Save as PDF’ when I test it as a single record save, but crashes FMPA once I use it in the full set save (which is very large).

By: Hildy Essex

Hildy Essex — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:32:24 +0000

Hi – do you have any suggestion as to what to do if the file you mention isn’t actually there? I’m on Mac OSX.

By: Lauren Kuhlman

Lauren Kuhlman — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:58:06 +0000

Geoff,

Once again, you rock.

By: Julien Mac

Julien Mac — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:11:40 +0000

Thanks a lot !!!

By: Jessica Reed

Jessica Reed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:47:51 +0000

Brilliant!

By: david

david — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:40:22 +0000

This procedure didn’t work for me…. but did lead to a solution.

So I performed a quick hunt for other *.lst files in the subfolders of \Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Adobe\

I found this one (it comes back after you create your pdf)

C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\8.0\Cache\AcroFnt80.lst

and also this one

C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Adobe\Fonts\AdobeFnt11.lst

Which has also come back, and needs to be deleted before you next are able to create a pdf.

Note.

I am trying to print a copy of the relationship table, which I would prefer to output directly to jpg, but that option doesn’t seem to exist anywhere from the relationship tab. For me this is a fiddle as I would like to create, and print, a single chart for each of the databases I have. And then be able to present them together / singularly / joined with others etc. In jpg I can be sure that everyone can see them (and I can trim / edit them as required, publish the graph easily on the local intra-web).

By: Burrowing Owl

Burrowing Owl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:12:07 +0000

Muchas gracias! It works!

By: Geoff Coffey

Geoff Coffey — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:24 +0000

Richard: The file will reappear every time you create a PDF from FileMaker. This is a standard component of the Adobe PDF architecture, which is in turn used by FileMaker to create PDFs. So that, in itself, is not a problem. Sometimes, though, you will wind up with a copy of this file that is corrupted, and that causes Filemaker to crash. Deleting the corrupted copy causes a new clean file to be created, fixing the crashing problem. But this is only a fix for crashing in FileMaker. I have never seen (or heard about) the problem you describe, so it almost certainly is caused by something else. Are you using an unusual font? Geoff

By: RIchard

RIchard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:39:45 +0000

I have the same problem currently, of the font turning into gobbledygook..very frustrating. have tried deleting the file as per above comments , but it auto populates. Event removed Adobe acrobat form my machine, but it still appears because of the CS4? this is causing massive problems for us..and NOTHING seems to fix it. i have wiped the hard drive and reinstalled all software. the computer is only 2 months old (MACPRO) Auughh! any other ideas guys?
Rich

By: Geoff Coffey

Geoff Coffey — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:23:24 +0000

Hans:

THANK YOU for hashing this out. I’ve updated the article with the Windows path information.

Geoff