Encapsulated Postscript output fails - no header.ps found

Report · Feb 22, 2010

There are two issues with FM 7.2 and FM 9. I found this issue when trying to fix the first issue (which will be posted as a separate discussion).

When I go into the adobe pdf advanced settings and change the output to Encapsulated Postscript and then output to a PS file, it does most of the first page and then stops with an error that it can't find the "header.ps" file.

That is bull, as the file is sitting in the fmint directory of the installation. At least it is for 7.2. I didn't check 9.0 yet. There is also a headerPDF.ps file there as well.

Why is FM b-i-t-c-h-i-n-g about a file that is installed?

Report · Feb 22, 2010

MrVideoSenior wrote:

When I go into the adobe pdf advanced settings and change the output to Encapsulated Postscript and then output to a PS file, it does most of the first page and then stops with an error that it can't find the "header.ps" file.

Why exactly are you trying to set FM to create EPS output?

This is not the correct route to get to a PDF, if that is your intent. You should leave it at "Optimize for Speed".

Report · Feb 22, 2010

@Armis: Sorry for not quoting, but I do not see a button in which to do that. The forum software is really pisspoor, as noted by my forum comment posting. The software crashes Exploder after pretty much every posting.

As to why I was trying to use EPS output is to try and get around the issue posted in the other discussion. The distillers will render EPS output.

The setting you suggest is the setting I'm currently using, but it creates unusable PostScript output from books.

Do you know of a cure for the "header.ps" not found error?

Personally I do not believe that even EPS output will be correct, in that it too will have the PostScript code that is not renderable by the distillers.

Report · Feb 23, 2010

To my knowledge, a file in EPS format cannot have pages. It is typically a graphic in Postscript code.

If you are trying to create a PDF from a book, then either PRINT the book to the Adobe PDF printer...

OR print to a Postscript printer, saving the output to file (.ps), and then distilling the ps file to PDF.

The first way is basically the same as the second but it is a one-step process.

By the way, you CAN distill an eps file to a PDF. If the eps is a graphic, you get a PDF of the graphic on a page just large enough to hold the graphic, that is, its bounding box.

Does this help?

Van

Report · Feb 23, 2010

@Van: You are correct. Memory block forgot that EPS files are not multipaged.

I've been trying the other methods, but have bad PostScript code that doesn't distill. That problem is in the other posting.