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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 error limitcheck offending command image the complexity of the file: In a lot of cases, redesigning the document to make
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it less complex can get around "limitcheck" errors. Breaking up the print job in smaller entities can also do the trick. Print error limitcheck offending command save only one page or even one color at the time. Send your page without including the images to see whether images are causing the problem. Ungrouping objects can be very effective. Often groups and especially groups in
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groups or rotated groups of objects really make it tough to render PostScript. Nesting files (e.g. placing an 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 error: syntaxerror offending command: --nostringval-- 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 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 e
a PostScript error Applies to : Illustrator InDesign PageMaker Photoshop PostScript printer drivers You can receive a PostScript error when sending a file to a PostScript interpreter (for example, a printer, Acrobat Distiller). A PostScript error occurs when the PostScript interpreter
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can't read the file's PostScript code. An error can also occur if the file's PostScript
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code exceeds one or more of the limits in the PostScript page description language. If your PostScript interpreter appears to process data %%[ warning: postscript error. no pdf file produced. ] %% but then stops, 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 https://www.prepressure.com/postscript/troubleshooting/errors/limitcheck of the PostScript code that the interpreter couldn't read. The offending command usually indicates the command that caused the problem. Some PostScript errors 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 https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/troubleshoot-postscript-errors.html 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 > Settings > Printers (Windows 2000)Start > Printers And Faxes (Windows XP)Start > Control Panel > Printers (Windows Vista, Windows 7) Right-click the printer you are using, and then choose Printer Properties. Select the General tab, select Printing Preferences, and then click Advanced. Expand Document Options, and then expand PostScript Options. Set Send PostScript Error Handler to Yes. If you do not see this option, your printer does not have a PostScript Error Handler. Note: If PostScript Options isn't visible, double-click Document OptionsIn Mac OS, configure the Apple LaserWriter 8 or Adobe PS printer driver to print the error message by doing one of the following:Choose either J
and turn it into a PDF, did you have the following errors occur? [ %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% XF096CBBC not found, using Courier. %%[ Error: `; OffendingCommand: xshow; ErrorInfo: CharOffsets e ????¤e fonts/Courier ]%% Stack: [46 92 48 48 http://blog.baroan.com/2012/02/adobe-distiller-error-offendingcommand.html 76 0] ( ) %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored http://www.verycomputer.com/303_1117c0bf7490ca30_1.htm ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% ] According to this article from the Adobe Forum: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/510096, the errors occurred because the document in question was created on a system using either Windows XP or Windows Vista. If you were using Windows 7 to create a PDF of your document and the offending command process crashed, that is because Microsoft changed the inner workings of this particular font and all the issues stemmed from that. The solution to this issue is telling Adobe Distiller not to 'Rely on System Fonts only' do not use document fonts.' By doing this, Distiller disregards any of your own fonts and instead works with the fonts contained in the document. The following is a similar error that may error limitcheck offending occur: %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[Page: 1]%% %%[Page: 2]%% %%[Page: 3]%% %%[Page: 4]%% %%[Page: 5]%% %%[Page: 6]%% %%[Page: 7]%% Cambria not found, using Courier. %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%% Stack: [85 0] ( ) %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% This error can be resolved by changing one of the Adobe PDF printer settings. When you are in the print dialog, and you have selected the appropriate PDF printer, select "Properties." In the dialog box, there should be a tab titled "Adobe PDF Settings," and it should look like the below image. Un-check "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts." This solves the issue for documents created using XP or Vista, then upgraded to Windows 7. The Cambria font somehow gets changed between XP/Vista and Win7. This post will be updated if our help desk finds a situation where this "fix" does not work. Posted by Yvonne Miaoulis Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Adobe, Adobe Distiller, font. microsoft word, microsoft, PDF, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP 24 comments: Adobe SoftwareMarch 28, 2012 at 5:48 AMIf I run this command then the Distiller is
appears in the tray-bar, and when clicked it launches the following .log file: %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%% Stack: /Font /Courier /courier %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% That's *y annoying. I did search for previous messages on this forum, and I followed the suggestion to edit the Fonts option in Acrobat Distiller -- it didn't help. Also, my document doesn't use Courier at all! Please don't tell me I have to *y reinstall everything. Top 1. Invalidfont, OffendingCommand, findfont Hi, here's my system: Acrobat 4.0; Mac OS 8.0; Powerbook 3400c Here's the error: --------------------- Distilling: CH01_test.ps Source: HDD:Desktop Folder:Printouts:CH01_test.ps Destination: HDD:Desktop Folder:Printouts:CH01_test.pdf Start Time:Monday, Mar11,2002 %%[Error:Palatino-Bold not found. Font cannot be embedded.]%% %%[Error:invalidfont; OffendingCommand:findfont]%% Stack: /Font (Palatino-Bold) /f16 %%[Flushing:rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored[%% %%[Warning:PostScript err. No PDF file produced.]%% Distil Time 7 seconds * ***End of Job**** --------------------- Error history: I started getting infinite repetitive error messages that it could not find the Courier font, when pdfing. That seems to imply a corrupted virtual printer. So I tried to reinstall the virtual printer -- no luck. So after some web searching, I found the following advice (with /S/E/ representing /system/extensions, /S/P/ representing /System/Preferences: Trash: /S/E/AdobePS /S/E/Adobe Printing Library /S/E/Printer descriptions/[your Acrobat Distiller PPDs] /S/P/printing prefs/AdobePS prefs /S/P/Printing prefs/ParsedPPD/* Empty the trash, rebuild the desktop/ Reinstall /Adobe Acrobat/Adobe fixes/AdobePS8.6/AdobePS8.6/AdobePS Installer. Restart, run the program you want to print from, page setup and select the virtual printer. Great! I got back my virtual printer. Then I printed (from Quark as it so happens -- but I later found that even printing from Finder created the same problem) and got the error above. No problem, I figured I'd just do a Disti