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and reload this page. Please enter a title. You can not post a error undefined offending command stack blank message. Please type your message and try again. More discussions in Acrobat Windows (read-only) All CommunitiesAcrobatAcrobat Windows (read-only) 8 Replies error limitcheck offending command save Latest reply on Jun 16, 2009 9:12 PM by Bill@VT Distiller error (djperno) Mar 6, 2008 2:45 AM I have Adobe Acrobat Distiller 7.0 for windows 2000 and i want to generate a pdf
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doc from image composition.The image size is 150 MB or more, the problem with distiller appears when i launch the pdf generation for this image. The error is limitcheck and i like to resolve this problem. Tomorrow will have the log file. Sorry for my english and i hope your help. Bye 6624Views Tags: none (add) This content has been marked as final. Show 8 replies 1. Re: Distiller
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error Bill@VT Mar 6, 2008 4:04 AM (in response to (djperno)) Distiller can not convert an image, only PS and EPS files. Don't know what you mean by image composition in a PDF. Generally, such a large image is not of much use as a PDF, unless you really want folks to be able to zoom in to 800% to see details or such. If you do not need the latter, I would create a reduced version of the image before conversion (highly recommended). From my calculations, 150 MB is about a 1200 dpi in B&W. For most applications 150 dpi is adequate, unless you want the zoom I mentioned. Your resolution could be a lot higher if your image is compressed. However, compression usually only gives about a 10:1 advantage, maybe larger, depending on the image content. If it is compressed, then Acrobat can not do much better. I would just try to open the image directly in Acrobat (you did not mention the file type and I am only assuming this is possible). If not, open it in a graphics editor and print to the Adobe PDF printer. However, with a 150 MB image, you are probably going to get a system
line. This error is more common on old PostScript level 1 RIPs than on Level 2 or PostScript 3 devices. Sometimes it is not the document that is too complex, but the RIP or printer has certain limitations. General solutions Reduce the complexity of the file: In a lot of error syntax error offending command nostringval cases, redesigning the document to make it less complex can get around "limitcheck" errors. Breaking up
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the print job in smaller entities can also do the trick. Print only one page or even one color at the time. Send your page error unregistered offending command xshow without including the images to see whether images are causing the problem. Ungrouping objects can be very effective. Often groups and especially groups in groups or rotated groups of objects really make it tough to render PostScript. Nesting files (e.g. placing an https://forums.adobe.com/thread/306059 EPS in an EPS or placing a PDF file on a page) also adds to the complexity of a document and can lead to limitcheck errors (especially with the offending commands ‘save' and ‘restore'). If you have a printer with a limited amount of memory you could try to reduce the number of fonts used in the document. Use the option ‘split long paths' in drawing applications to split up complex path in easier to process chunks. If you are printing from Illustrator: if https://www.prepressure.com/postscript/troubleshooting/errors/limitcheck the document contains gradients, select Compatible Gradient Printing (Illustrator 7.x or earlier) or Compatible Gradient and Gradient Mesh Printing (Illustrator 8.0) in the Document Setup dialog box. Johan sent me an e-mail: He got a couple of limitcheck errors in PostScript 3 RIPs because of a very big ‘history' entry in Photoshop EPS metadata. The problem is solved by deleting the metadata, but finding the offending image can be tricky in a big project. Photoshop itself has no problem with such EPS files and they can be placed in QuarkXPress documents without a problem. Using TIFF or JPEG or making it a standard procedure to remove history info from metadata (or all meta data) are valid workarounds. Give your workflow, printer or RIP more room to work Lowering the resolution of your imagesetter or printer makes it easier for the RIP to calculate the job. This may seem odd but sometimes selecting a higher screen ruling is not such a bad idea as well. Reboot the RIP (or printer) to clear its memory. Some laser printers allow you to add more memory. That often does the trick and with the current RAM prices, it doesn't even cost that much. If you are still using an old PostScript level 1 RIP, perform a font cache delete if you have the tools for this. Avoid extra layers of software Get rid of all extra software that adds to the complexity of the job: do not use OPI, do not print u
the handle a specific aspect of the creation of a PDF file. For example: using pdfmarks, an application can instruct Distiller to add a hotlink to a small piece of text in its file, https://www.prepressure.com/postscript/troubleshooting/errors/pdfmark so that if you click on that word in the PDF, a web browser https://www.prepressure.com/postscript/troubleshooting/errors/string like Firefox opens a web page. Errors that contain an offending command ‘pdfmark' point to some kind of problem in processing these pdfmarks. The error should only pop up in Distiller or equivalent programs because it makes no sense trying to send PDFmarks to a normal RIP. Solutions Solving this kind of error should not be offending command to difficult: disable pdfmark creation in the originating application. The only problem is that this option may be hidden under some exotic description. Take for example FrameMaker 7. It has a known problem with files that fail while creating PDFs or distilling PS files with tagged PDF information. The error is (%%[ Error: undefined; Offending Command: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: StRetrieve P127021 ]%% Stack: /StRetrieve) … As a workaround, turn off ‘Generate offending command stack Tagged PDF' in the PDF Setup menu. The same is true in FrameMaker 6 which can generate errors looking like this: %%[ Error: typecheck; Offending Command: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: PUT _objdef ]%% . Turning off ‘Generate Tagged PDF' in the PDF Setup menu also gets rid of this error. Yet another FrameMaker 6 or 7 tip: instead of printing to a PostScript file and then processing that file with Distiller, print to the Adobe PDF printer. 23 December 2014 5 Comments » 5 responses to "Offending command: pdfmark" Coscript Consulting says: June 25, 2013 at 8:23 pm pdfmark operator provides additional information to Distiller and similar PostScript to PDF converters. If something goes wrong there, the offending pdfmark can be commented out or removed without changing the rest of them. Please contact Coscript Consulting for professional resolution of PostScript and PDF issies: [emailprotected] or +1 (610) 529 3475. vikas garg says: March 11, 2011 at 1:28 pm Currently i am using adobe page maker 7.0 & Adobe 9.0. I am trying to convert page maker file into .pdf but getting some error mentioned below : TT9BF4ACCATH not found, using Courier. %%[ Error: rangecheck; OffendingCommand: imageDistiller; ErrorInfo: Decode -nostringval- ]%% Stack: -dict- -mark- %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-
RIP may help. If there is a way to provide it with more memory, that might also do the trick. An application may also write bad PostScript code and exceed the  maximum allowable string length. Check if updates are available that address this issue. Matt send me an e-mail: "I got this error in Distiller 4.0 when distilling a Quark postscript file. I had a duotone that a ‘yellow' color in it, which I didn't need so I changed it to a monotone EPS and then the thing distilled. Not proper troubleshooting, but I must move on. Love the site!" 27 November 2015 2 Comments » 2 responses to "Offending command: string" Mike says: May 5, 2009 at 6:11 pm Hi, I am receiving this error message when trying to print from .DWF to .PDF, can you help me solve this problem? Thanks, Mike %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: string ]%% Stack: 122400 /mystring 24 2031 40800 %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% Reply Laurens says: May 6, 2009 at 9:20 pm Tough one as this is a very generic error message. The best work-around is probably to switch to another way of generating a PDF file, e.g. by using the ‘export to PDF' option that many apps offer. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. 1 + six = Navigation Home Design Basics Troublefree Output Troubleshoot InDesign Prepress Workflow Systems Prepress History Printing Printed Products Printing Industry Printing Processes History of Printing Printing Museums Finishing Folding Perfect Binding Printing Dictionary A – ‘A2′ to ‘azure’ B – ‘back lining’ to ‘byline’ C – ‘C1S’ to ‘cyan’ D – ‘Dagger’ to ‘Dye’ E – ‘E-13B’ to ‘extension’ F – ‘face’ to ‘fuzzy font’ G – ‘GAA’ to ‘gutter’ H – ‘hairline’ to ‘hyphen’ I – ‘IBC’ to ‘ivory board’ J – ‘jacket’ to ‘justify’ K – ‘kanji’ to ‘KS/KSSM’ L – ‘L*A*B’ to ‘LZW’ M – ‘Mac’ to ‘M weight’ N – ‘nameplate’ to ‘#’ O – ‘OBC’ to ‘Ozalid’ P – ‘packing’ to ‘pyroxylin’ Q – ‘QC’ to ‘quire’ R – ‘ragged’ to ‘runoutâ€