Re: Printing problems

["Snavely, Deborah" <dsnavely@xxxxxxxx>]

Doug said:
> I'm having problems printing from a book file. When printing
> to paper I can get the TOC and the first chapter to print
> but nothing beyond that. I can print individual chapters
> without a problem. That would be fine in and of itself,
> however the goal is to print the book to a postscript file
> and send that file to our print vendor for publication. I
> have also tried to save the file as a PDF only to have the
> job abort.
> 
Start by de-contaminating the book file of glitches by saving it to MIF and
then opening the MIF file and then saving it to a new name. Forcing Frame to
code and decode the MIF sometimes fixes corrupted book files.

If that doesn't do it, my best suggestion is a series of experiments using
Distiller as your PostScript analyzer: 

>From the book file, print to *.ps the last file that prints (first chapter,
you said).
Convert it using Distiller. If OK, great. If not, examine the Distiller log
for hints.

Repeat for the next file in the book. Continue through the book or try the
whole book again, depending on your degree of patience and the similarity of
graphics and content among chapters. Sometimes one specific graphic or
imported file can cause a problem like this, and may need to be re-imported
or re-imported in a different graphic format. (For PDF, EPS is often a good
bet, since Acrobat uses essentially a compressed format. But not all EPS is
created equal.) 

Somewhere in this process, you should at least be able to identify your
"problem file". You can also try the MIF and back approach to clean up a
chapter, but the book file is a more likely suspect.

Good luck!

> Deborah Snavely
> Lead Technical Writer
> consulting at Visa
> standard disclaimers apply
> 

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