Actually, I would prefer to sacrifice this blasted TCS 2- good lord, has there been problems after installation - but, I cross-posted this message to another list and here's an answer I received -
Yes, this is a real Acrobat error message. I've seen it a few times over the years. It has something to do with font registrations in Windows and the Acrobat Distiller. It comes and goes with no apparent explanation, and everytime I've experienced it, rebooting the system has made it go away. No idea what to do if that doesn't work. So, I rebooted and voila, the gremlins have been vanquished for now. TGIF and thanks all. These lists are invaluable. TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC email: i...@spectrumwritingllc.com web: www.spectrumwritingllc.com -----Original Message----- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:22 PM To: Tammy Van Boening; framers@lists.frameusers.com; Free Framers Subject: RE: Going nutso with a PDF problem Tammy Van Boening wrote: > TCS 2 - all components up to date with the latest patches > > I have successfully distilled this FM document many times before, when all > of a sudden poof- I am getting this bizarre message: > > When you create a postscript file, you must rely on system fonts and use > document fonts. Please go to printer properties "Adobe PDF Settings" page > and turn OFF the option "Rely on system fonts only. Do not use document > fonts." > > Uh, the fonts that I was initially using (American Standard and Phylliis D) > are installed on my system and I have successfully made PDFs many times > before with these fonts, but in a desperate time crunch, I converted the > fonts to good old Arial and TNR only and yes, I double-checked that, but no > matter what I do, turn off this blasted setting (which I never had to mess > with before) or turn on this blasted setting for my Adobe PDF printer, I > get > the same blasted message and FM hangs when I request to distill the > document > and I can't this dam___d document to distill in preparation for a PDF. Hmm. The lengthy tooltip for that setting says it only needs to be turned off if the document contains embedded fonts that aren't installed on your system. Well, if the fonts _are_ installed on your system, that setting shouldn't even matter. :-} When I recently installed TPS 2, Acrobat 9 couldn't find my custom .joboptions files. Apparently, Adobe pulled one of its favorite new version tricks: they changed the location of those files without a thought to backward compatibility or to having the installation program copy the existing files from the Acro 7 location to the new one. I wonder if something similar/related is at work here. Did this stop working when you upgraded, or sometime later? In Distiller, you might check if the Font Locations list contains the location of those fonts. Also, to eliminate a problem with the specific doc, create a new one that uses those fonts and see if you can PDF that. Also, are you using Save As PDF or printing to Adobe PDF printer? Try the other. Try printing to a file (using Adobe PDF printer). See if a log file is created that shows when it failed and why. If all else fails, try sacrificing a goat. ;-) Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.