Frame 8 trial woes

[Emily Berk]

I have gone through and saved every chapter individually to 
PDF.  Every single one generated ok.

But then when I try to gen the PDF, it only creates a text file that 
says that it fails on page 49.

Sigh.

This is a HUGE doc.

-- Emily

At 02:21 PM 12/22/2008, Emily Berk wrote:
>Yeah, there might be some psychotic graphics somewhere.
>
>I'm not really familiar with the doc, since I only have seen it for 
>a few hours.
>
>I will try to create each chapter into its own PDF as a 
>start.  Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>It's only time, and -- I read this on a Celestial Seasonings teabag 
>tag:  "When God created time, he created enough of it."  Not that I 
>don't have a bunch of other ways I might want to spend the unlimited 
>time I have.
>
>-- Emily
>
>At 01:59 PM 12/22/2008, Alan Litchfield wrote:
>>Timing :(
>>
>>First thing I would look for is a corrupt/badly formed graphic file.
>>If you have any graphics in any specific chapter files, that is.
>>
>>So what I'd do:
>>1, Try to print each chapter to ps (not direct to pdf) then manually
>>distill them using Acrobat and see which one(s) fail.
>>2, When it/they fail in Acrobat you will see which pages successfully
>>completed. The offending graphic(s) will be on the next page
>>somewhere. You will also get an error log generated, although
>>sometimes the messages can be somewhat cryptic unless you know what
>>you are reading.
>>3, Remove the suspect(s) and repeat steps 1 and 2 until the file(s)
>>complete successfully.
>>4, Replace or repair the graphics files accordingly.
>>
>>On the other hand, if the FM 8 files are operating without incident on
>>the source machine and the problem only surfaces on your machine, or
>>files that have been exported for use on your machine, then are they
>>using any plug ins that you do not have?
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>On 23/12/2008, at 10:43 AM, Emily Berk wrote:
>>
>>>One of my colleagues is working for a company that is using Frame 8.
>>>
>>>He was having some problems generating a PDF, and, guess what -- his
>>>doc is due today.
>>>
>>>First thing he tried was to export his book and all its chapters to
>>>Frame 7.  I was not able to read a single one.
>>
>>--
>>Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS
>>AlphaByte
>>PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140
>>http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
>>
>>
>>
>Emily Berk
>http://www.armadillosoft.com

Emily Berk
http://www.armadillosoft.com