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a PostScript error Applies to : Illustrator InDesign PageMaker Photoshop PostScript printer drivers You can receive a PostScript error when sending a file
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to a PostScript interpreter (for example, a printer, Acrobat Distiller). A PostScript error undefined offending command get stack quit error occurs when the PostScript interpreter can't read the file's PostScript code. An error can also occur
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if the file's PostScript code exceeds one or more of the limits in the PostScript page description language. If your PostScript interpreter appears to process data but then stops, error undefined offending command eexec a PostScript error could have occurred.A PostScript error message includes a PostScript error type, which defines the type of error it is. It also includes an offending command, which usually indicates the specific part of the PostScript code that the interpreter couldn't read. The offending command usually indicates the command that caused the problem. Some PostScript errors error undefined offending command g2ubegin point you right to the cause of the problem, and some get you looking in the right direction.Example of a PostScript error:%%[Error: ; OffendingCommand: ]%%For example, the PostScript error %%[Error: dictfull; OffendingCommand: def ]%% contains the PostScript error type "dictfull" and the offending command "def." The error type indicates that the dictionary contains the maximum number of entries. The offending command is the last command the PostScript interpreter tried to process, "def," which defines a new word in the dictionary. View or print a PostScript error message If you think a PostScript error has occurred, but it doesn't appear onscreen or in your printout, you can sometimes view or print the error message. Do one or more of the following:Use an error handler utility. For example, Adobe PageMaker has the Include PostScript Error Handler option in the Print Options dialog box.In Windows, configure the printer to print the error message:Note: In Windows NT, you cannot configure a printer to print an error message. Choose one of the following: Start > Se
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Acrobat XI on my Mac OS 10.7.5. Distiller will not create PDF. I get this:%%[ Error: error limitcheck offending command image undefined; OffendingCommand: PK ]%%%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%Distill
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Time: 2 seconds (00:00:02)**** End of Job ****Result is I cannot use Distiller to make PDF. Which is exactly what I need Acroabt XI to do. Any help or advice very welcome. Oliver St John 7 Answers Voted https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/troubleshoot-postscript-errors.html Best Answer Edit Answer (for another -5 minute) Thats super, as you found out, you can still print a file to your printers specification using the Print Command. This is the only way you can do it, and this is a reliable way of creating a print ready file. Unfortunately, the Mac doesn't support PDFMaker, so you have to use the print command. But you can still create PDFs on a mac from Word but just https://answers.acrobatusers.com/Distiller-error-warning-postscipt-error-q39931.aspx not using the PDFMaker. Really glad you have created your file, the last thing I would recommend, is opening up 'Preflight' in Acrobat, from the Print production tool bar on the right, and run one of the built in check to check that your file is completely compliant. Since you mentioned version 1.3. I am assuming you are using a variation of PDF/X1-a and not PDF/X4 as this supports 1.4. So in Preflight, (under PDF/X compliance) double click the Verfiy compliance with PDF/X-1a, just be doubly sure By Sean Mitchell Edit Answer (for another -40 minute) HiWhat kind of files are you running through distiller? And what job settings have you chosen in Distiller.It could be a number of reasons, one could be a problem with fonts failing to embed properly, resulting in flushing the job Sean Mitchell Edit Answer (for another -27 minute) Thanks for replying. I am converting a book in Word doc.x to PDF. I have tried using various job options but it does not seem to matter, none of them work.Could it be that I installed a set of joboptions after installing Acrobat and this has caused the whole Distiller to fail? I get this error on the log as well:Error in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/AdobePDF/Settings/PDFX4 2008.joboptions:/CheckCompliance out of rangeAcrobat will create a PDF, but not with Distiller, and I need to use the
pdf - offending command: setcmykoverprint - Adobe Acrobat Windows Any ideas on this one? For some doc files, PDFMaker hangs up during "printing" when converting doc to pdf. For ps (prn) files from these doc files, Distiller http://www.justskins.com/forums/failure-converting-doc-ps-78527.html hangs up with page 1 Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: setcmykoverprint. Acrobat 5.5.5.2001101100 Acrobat Distiller https://www.prepressure.com/postscript/troubleshooting/errors/undefined 5.0.5.2001101100 Word 2002 (10.5522.4219) SP-2 Windows 2000 Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Thanks.... Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode May 6th,12:11 AM #1 Failure converting doc/ps to pdf - offending command: setcmykoverprint Any ideas on this offending command one? For some doc files, PDFMaker hangs up during "printing" when converting doc to pdf. For ps (prn) files from these doc files, Distiller hangs up with page 1 Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: setcmykoverprint. Acrobat 5.5.5.2001101100 Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5.2001101100 Word 2002 (10.5522.4219) SP-2 Windows 2000 Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Thanks. Don_Parda@adobeforums.com Guest May 6th,07:31 AM #2 Failure converting doc/ps to pdf - offending command: setcmykoverprint An unusual error undefined offending one, but could possibly be from either - embedded EPS files that aren't portable - using the wrong PostScript driver Aandi Inston Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com Guest May 6th,06:22 PM #3 Re: Failure converting doc/ps to pdf - offending command: setcmykoverprint Pursuing the possibility of the wrong PostScript driver. Looking at a prn file generated for an HP5si, I find the following two lines .... %!PS-Adobe-3.0 .... %%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2 .... Does this tell me whether I have the right/wrong PostScript driver? Incidentally, on an equivalent prn file generated on a different computer I use daily for printing, I find .... %!PS-Adobe-3.0 .... %%Creator: Pscript.dll Version 5.0 .... Pursing the possibility of problems with EPS (thanks for the opportunity to be introduced to Encapsulated PostScript) files. Looking at the prn file, I find multiple instances of ....%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%BoundingBox: 158 195 252 217 .... /setcmykoverprint .... which I think means I have multiple embedded EPS files with the suspect command "setcmykoverprint". Any clues on how to isolate (what marks the end of the file?) and view/print an EPS file? Thanks. Don Parda Don_Parda@adobeforums.com Guest May 6th,06:30 PM #4 Failure converting doc/ps to pdf - offending command: setcmykoverprint It's certainly the wrong driver. Use the Distiller drive
The error can be caused by numerous things such as missing dictionaries, imported graphics, data corruption, communication problems or missing PostScript header information. General solutions Some offending commands indicate a possible problem with the driver settings or printer support files. Updating drivers or switching to an alternative driver might solve the problem. You can also try to copy and paste all elements to a new file. If the document was converted from a previous version of an application, try printing again from that version. A strange word as an offending command: Sometimes a RIP generates an ‘undefined' PostScript error, with an offending command ‘bspt' or another randomly chosen kind of technical term like ‘fob' of ‘xtrfx'. Such errors indicate that the RIP tries to execute a command that has not been defined in the PostScript file. In a lot of cases, PostScript error "undefined" issues are caused by incorrect drivers: PostScript drivers that are corrupted or that are vendor-specific (eg you try printing to a Tectronix printer using an HP driver) PPDs that are too old or too new. PPDs that should be used for another device. Some applications that put themselves in-between your application and the RIP can also cause this kind of a problem: try printing without passing through a spooler or OPI-system. Use another imposition software or try to avoid using your trapping software. Sometimes the name of the offending command indicates which application is causing the problem. I remember a customer who by accident had deleted a number of PostScript files from his Preps folder. Subsequently Preps kept generating ‘undefined' errors because its printfiles lacked the necessary code. We found this rather quick because the offending command started with ‘SS' or s