Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Litchfield
Hi Catherine, What happens when you update all cross references? Are there links to external files that may be broken? Can you postscript the file? If it does, will that convert to pdf using, say ps2pdf? In verbose mode this could give some useful information. Do you have conditional text

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Litchfield
Glad to hear you got things sorted. Curious about your non-capability to produce postscript though. Is this the case even is you print with fmbatch from a console? Here is an interesting preprocessor for fmbatch: http://search.cpan.org/src/IANC/sdf-2.001/bin/sdfbatch This may be of interest

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-11-30 Thread Geiszler, Catherine
Hello- I'm new to this list; tried to search the archives but only found November. So I hope you all haven't answered this question TOO many times I'm not new to Framemaker and it's been a long time since I had a problem I couldn't solve, but I am beating my head against a wall on this one.

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Wickham
>> We have a book that will not pdf, regardless of whether one uses Print >> to File... or Save As... functions. Does Distiller display an error code when PDF creation fails? Mike

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-11-30 Thread Art Campbell
You don't mention what tool or setup you're using to create the .pdf ... which could be part of the problem... Looking at the .pdf Distiller error log, can you id a page where the process seems to fail? Also, you don't mention whether you tried printing to a .ps file and then distilling

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-11-30 Thread Geiszler, Catherine
- From: Mike Wickham [mailto:mewick...@compuserve.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:22 PM To: Geiszler, Catherine; Frame Users Subject: Re: Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets >> We have a book that will not pdf, regardless of whether one uses Print >&

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-11-30 Thread Art Campbell
ing > the new doc made no difference. But I appreciate the suggestion. > > Thanks > Catherine > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Wickham [mailto:mewickham at compuserve.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:22 PM > To: Geiszler, Catherine; Frame Users > Su

Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets

2005-11-30 Thread Geiszler, Catherine
+catherine.geiszler=gd-ais.com at lists.frameusers.c om] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:33 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Corrupt document that's not giving up its secrets Hi Catherine, What happens when you update all cross references