I have gone through and saved every chapter individually to PDF. Every single one generated ok.
But then when I try to gen the PDF, it only creates a text file that says that it fails on page 49. Sigh. This is a HUGE doc. -- Emily At 02:21 PM 12/22/2008, Emily Berk wrote: >Yeah, there might be some psychotic graphics somewhere. > >I'm not really familiar with the doc, since I only have seen it for >a few hours. > >I will try to create each chapter into its own PDF as a >start. Thanks for the suggestions. > >It's only time, and -- I read this on a Celestial Seasonings teabag >tag: "When God created time, he created enough of it." Not that I >don't have a bunch of other ways I might want to spend the unlimited >time I have. > >-- Emily > >At 01:59 PM 12/22/2008, Alan Litchfield wrote: >>Timing :( >> >>First thing I would look for is a corrupt/badly formed graphic file. >>If you have any graphics in any specific chapter files, that is. >> >>So what I'd do: >>1, Try to print each chapter to ps (not direct to pdf) then manually >>distill them using Acrobat and see which one(s) fail. >>2, When it/they fail in Acrobat you will see which pages successfully >>completed. The offending graphic(s) will be on the next page >>somewhere. You will also get an error log generated, although >>sometimes the messages can be somewhat cryptic unless you know what >>you are reading. >>3, Remove the suspect(s) and repeat steps 1 and 2 until the file(s) >>complete successfully. >>4, Replace or repair the graphics files accordingly. >> >>On the other hand, if the FM 8 files are operating without incident on >>the source machine and the problem only surfaces on your machine, or >>files that have been exported for use on your machine, then are they >>using any plug ins that you do not have? >> >>Alan >> >>On 23/12/2008, at 10:43 AM, Emily Berk wrote: >> >>>One of my colleagues is working for a company that is using Frame 8. >>> >>>He was having some problems generating a PDF, and, guess what -- his >>>doc is due today. >>> >>>First thing he tried was to export his book and all its chapters to >>>Frame 7. I was not able to read a single one. >> >>-- >>Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS >>AlphaByte >>PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140 >>http://www.alphabyte.co.nz >> >> >> >Emily Berk >http://www.armadillosoft.com Emily Berk http://www.armadillosoft.com