Structured Book imported to FM 8 fails to Distill to PDF w/ Acrobat 8

[Art Campbell]

A couple ideas for you to kick around:

First, there is a patch release for Acrobat out, from 8 to 8.1... may
want to check the status of that.

Second, are you getting any log files from the distiller process that
may contain error information.

Third, check to make sure that the Acrobat distiller is your default printer.

Are you opening all the component chapter files before distiling?

There have been a couple threads on other lists that mention turning
On the Create Tagged PDF option seems to improve things....

Cheers,
Art

On 8/24/07, Valerie Lipow <vallipow at gmail.com> wrote:
> The book was created using the FM-Dita Book map, with FM-DITA Topic files.
> The book distilled without incident using FM 7.2 files and the Adobe Acrobat
> 8 Distiller. Now, the book does not distill, and no group of files will
> distill into PDF.
>
> In case the problem had something to do with distilling the book, which was
> created and has been successfully maintained for six months in FM 7.2, in FM
> 8, I created a new book in FM 8 and added the files to it. I have been
> editing the files in FM 8 for two weeks without problems.
>
> In trying different was to skin this cat, I've noticed that I can distill
> all of the 19 files contained in the book individually. This includes the
> generated files (TOC and Index); the Acrobat data (bookmarks,
> cross-references, etc.) also generates into the PDF files successfully. But
> each time I try to distill the book or any two or more files together, with
> or without the Acrobat Data, Distiller flushes the job.
>
> In the past (FM 6 days), whenever I had this kind of problem, I could narrow
> down the offending file by distilling different documents until I found the
> snag, and then recreate the corrupted file to eliminate whatever was causing
> Acrobat Distiller to choke.
>
> This time nothing I've tried seems to work, and the fact that I can distill
> every file individually makes me think that the problem has something to do
> with trying to distill multiple documents in one job. When I try ro distill
> different sets of documents, all of the log files from Distiller looks
> unlike any other.
>
> I haven't contacted Adobe Tech Support yet, in case there is something I
> should try that I haven't.
>
> I'd be grateful for any suggestions, up to and including reinstalling the
> software (Acrobat or Frame), which I haven't done yet, if it seems like
> something that could help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Val
>
> --
> Valerie Lipow
> vallipow at gmail.com
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