Very Slow PDF Generation - System Wide

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Hello All,

So I am experiencing something I have never encountered before.

Out of the blue, I am having issues generating PDF’s with Clarion created applications.

SV example apps, Capesoft Premiere, and my apps are all having issues. The process stage of report generation is slow and, when complete, the PDF never displays.

Do not have the first clue ao far what could have happened to cause this.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Don,

Maybe the wrong question but did you check the temp folder?

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Actually Marius you are right on the money.

Deleted everything in the Windows temp folder and everything is working correctly now.

Now I am curious as to how the contents of the temp folder affect PDF generation.

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One thing that might also be slowing you down is the slow deleting of files when there are a lot of pages.

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Hi Donald,
The temp files for the report are created in the temp folder.
Carl Barnes have a utility that cleans those.
His description:
Clarion Reports generate WMF files named CLA###.TMP (.WMF in 11.1) in the current User Windows Temp folder. A crash, bad code or a process shutdown can leave TMP files behind. A Temp folder full of these can cause problems with preview.

Regards
Johan de Klerk

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As mentioned check if your %TEMP% folder has 1000s files, especially CLA*.*

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