I have found a few things that will kill a PDF or EPS file on Mac.
!. Bad font. MIght print and display properly from inside Finale, but
just won't embed. Usually old fonts (I used to know this, but I
forgot what the old style of font is that breaks EPS.)
2. Custom arrowheads in Smart Shapes. Even the ones supplied by
MakeMusic. They just return errors until you are ready to pull your
hair out. There may be other things in Smart Shapes too, like rotated
text, that will refuse to embed.
3. An embedded graphic in the Finale file. Once again, I used to know
exactly which ones broke, but I forgot because I never do it any more
(would you?)
On a copy of your file, try deleting these items, or try printing to
file a page range omitting pages with those things, to see if you can
track down the offending item.
Hope this helps.
Christopher
On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:45 AM, Martin Banner wrote:
I opened up a file in Finale 2008 (for Mac) for which I want to
create a pdf file. After opening up the file, I went to File,
clicked on "Compile Postscript Listing", then clicked on the
compile button when the Compile Postscript Listing window came up.
I clicked on save. When I tried to open the postscript file, I got
an error message:
PostScript Conversion Error
The PostScript file "Bertoni Credo vocal.ps" could be converted to
a PDF file.
Any suggestions for me so that I can get a pdf?
Thanks,
Martin
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