1st Page of Landscape Tables Truncates in PS

[Robin Clark <rmclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Running FM 5.5.6, using Linotronic 330 PPD to produce PS file ("Generate
Acrobat Data" deselected), on Win95. Other variables include Acrobat
Distiller 3.02 and Driver 4.2.4. The print shop's DocuTech is a PP135 and
uses Network Server sw.

Have a multifile book where the 2 Appendices consist of many landscaped
tables (~90 pages worth, each appendix; the Master Pages are laid out in
landscape format so no rotation is involved). The first page of each
appendix ends up "truncated" when transferred to PS - the page size remains
11 X 8.5 but the right 3 inches are "missing," as if someone swathed a brush
of white paint over the page. 

Originally, each appendix started with a multipage table; thinking this
might be the problem, I split the first tables into separate single-page
units. I could then produce a successful PS of the individual appendix files
but when I produced a PS of the book my problem reappeared. When I created a
PDF from the PS files, the PDFs contained the problem. However, when I used
the "save as PDF" option from FM, I encountered the reverse situation - the
first page of each appendix is ok but all subsequent landscaped pages are
truly truncated (resulting in small, rectangular portrait-oriented pages).

Using a PS file of the book made via the Acrobat PPD, I achieved perfect
results creating a PDF and/or printing to my Lexmark OptraS 1650. However,
when that PS file was fed to our printer's DocuTech, it would not print.
(We've already tried feeding a good PDF - made via Acrobat PPD/Distiller -
to the DocuTech, with all fonts embedded and all graphic compression
settings deselected, but that file also would not print.)

Looking through the archives, I found posts that blame an unnamed PPD as the
culprit and suggest the HP LaserJet 4MV PPD as a solution. I have a vague
recollection that more has been said on this topic, but no can find.

I am unsure whether the Linotronic/Acrobat PPDs are the problem. And then
there's the "save as PDF" anamoly cited above, which potentially suggests a
Frame-spawned error. 

Thoughts? Solutions? Comiserations?

MTIA,
R



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