>>Hard to say. Have you tried with clean or no templates? > > Not quite sure what you mean by 'template' here, Bill.
You're using FrameMaker, right? 7.x? There's a template involved with every FM document, whether standard default or custom. >>Are you using drivers compatible with Distiller 6? > > Yup, exactly the same setup as I've used to produce several pre-press print > PDF files for published books over the past few years. I've just checked some > other book files, and they distill just fine: it seems to be something about > this book (which has not yet been worked on, it's just the result of a > 'flying typeset' to get an approximate extent). Have you tried copying the content out to a clean file? -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood Blog: http://techcommdood.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/techcommdood