Distiller Offending Command

Hi,

you should find an answer here: http://www.prepressure.com/postscript/troubleshooting

;)

The offending command "lsDistiller5050" was not listed in the document at the link.

I was finally able to create a PDF. I think the problem was due to unavailable fonts in one of the files.

For anyone coming by this way.

Some additional resources for "Distiller Offending Command":

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Troubleshoot PostScript errors
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/328/328515.php]TechNote ID: 328515[/url]

Error "...OffendingCommand: setdistillerparams..." or "Adobe PDF printer failed to create..." when you create a PDF file (Acrobat or Acrobat 3D)
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/328/328791.php]TechNote ID: 328791[/url]

"Error: undefinedresource; OffendingCommand: findresource" When Saving a FrameMaker for Mac OS Document as PDF
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/320/320140.php]TechNote ID: 320140[/url]

Error "...[font name] cannot be embedded due to licensing restrictions" occurs in Acrobat Distiller (6.0 and 7.0)
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/323/323155.php]TechNote ID: 323155[/url]

Helvetica or Times Roman error occurs when you try to convert a PostScript file from PageMaker to PDF (Acrobat Distiller 5.x-7.x)
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/328/328694.php]TechNote ID: 328694[/url]

Error "...undefined; offending command distillsave" when creating PDF file (Acrobat 6.0 on Mac OS X)
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/113/11325578.php]TechNote ID: 11325578[/url]

PostScript error occurs when you print a PDF file (Acrobat or InDesign)
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/325/325445.php]TechNote ID: 325445[/url]

ReadMe: Adobe PageMaker 7.0.2 for Windows
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/329/329981.php]TechNote ID: 329981[/url]

Be well...

I had this problem when creating a pdf file from MS Word. I printed to the PDF Writer, and received that same error message.

The problem is that one of the font used is not being recognized or cannot be embedded or dowloaded. It occurred to me that perhaps my "special font" used was not being read correctly or was too large to process. When I lowered my "special font" size to 30pts or below, it worked. Since, I wanted a large font, I changed my "special font" to a more standardized/recognizable" font, and the PDF Writer worked.

Try changing the "special font" or reducing its size, and perhaps it will work for you, too.

Good luck,

Creating PDF from Microsoft Word, Excel or any other Program - My error message before changing font was:

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%

Stack:
/RDS


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%