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When I go to print a pdf file with "Adobe PDF printer", I get the following error:
cannot complete command because read or write access has been denied.
This very strange error only appears if I change the paper size in the PPD settings. If I leave the default A4 size the PDF is generated without any problem.
When the error comes to light I need to delete the fhprefs.txt file. I tried to put somenthing like "whatever" in the export preferences of freehand, but that did not solved the problem.
You don't mention the OS, but this may be a permissions issue. Perhaps if you ran freehand as administrator.
I am using Freehand MX on Windows 10 Professional and I have found the solution for PDF export here is, to first save your Freehand document as an older version of Freehand. You can EXPORT your Freehand MX files as Freehand 8, 9 or 10, then close your MX document. Then open the Freehand 8,9 or 10 document and export as PDF. Perfect results every time without any error messages, don't ask me why. I have used Freehand MX on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 10, and mac OS 10.6 and this seems to work in the year 2020.
