Cannot produce PDF for a book

[Shlomo Perets]

Bertrand,

You wrote:

>I guess this is a Distiller rather than FrameMaker problem and I seem to
>have a workaround, but I would be interested to know if anyone on this list
>knows about the problem and has a more direct solution.
>
>When generating PDF for a book from FrameMaker, the process stops in the
>last pages with the message
>
>--------
>%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
>%%[Page: 1]%%
>%%[Page: 2]%%
>%%[Page: 3]%%
>%%[Page: 4]%%
>%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: StOBJ
>--nostringval-- ]%%
>
>Stack:
>/StOBJ
>{A.4.299011.1}
>/Obj
>-dict-
>
>%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
>%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
>----------
>
>Version: FrameMaker on Windows, 7.2b128.
>
>Before my latest changes to the book, FrameMaker was generating PDF fine.
>
>I was rather devastated this when I suddenly hit this. Then, since I
>fortunately have Distiller (version 9.0.11), I generated Postscript for the
>book; this worked, then I distilled the result separately, which also
>worked. I hope this somewhat tedious workaround continues to work; I assume
>FrameMaker uses another version of Distiller (and I did not see a way to
>tell FrameMaker to use another). Still, if anyone has a better suggestion I
>would be most grateful.


Turn off "Generate Tagged PDF" in FrameMaker's PDF Setup dialog box, Tags tab;
recreate the .ps and distill again.


Shlomo Perets

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