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December 18, 2014
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File was view only, won't save to PDF - log: OffendingCommand: text (Framemaker 11)

  • December 18, 2014
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I have been printing a book successfully for weeks now, and today did an edit to one chapter in the book. Now when I save the book as PDF, I get this in the log:

%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Text ]%%

Stack:

/Body

/T

-mark-

%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

I thought I fixed it because it was originally producing a "view only file" message (for the one chapter that I changed) while generating. I renamed the file, turn the lock on and off, and don't get the view only message, but still no PDF, either save-as-pdf of the individual chapter or the whole book.

Can anyone help? I've never encountered this.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

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    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    December 18, 2014

    Check the Disiller log file page numbers that come before the error message. The error occurs on the page after the last page number (in square brackets, e.g. [123]). There is something added on that page (perhaps a unicode position  not in the font(s) used?) that is causing a postscript error.

    Participating Frequently
    December 18, 2014

    Thanks, Arnis. This is the entire text from the log file:

    %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Text ]%%

    Stack:

    /Body

    /T

    -mark-

    %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

    %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

    Participating Frequently
    December 18, 2014

    Well, I'd still like to know what caused this in case it happens again. I found the offending chapter, opened it, deleted a few superlfuous hard returns, saved as PDF and all's well now. Go figure:)