Comments on: PostScript errors

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:20:06 +0000

Hi!
would you please help me, i’ve got an error on ms word 2003, whe can’t update to an earlier version of ms office, the error is “#0″ every time i try to print an inform from the erp system in my work, i can’t figured why.
I´ve got to add that the word woksheet are combined to an access file and says in the error, “couldn’t find file” or something similar.
I’m a beginner in this so don’t be to hard on me and my ignorance.

Thank you!

Diego.

By: Laurens

Laurens — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:23:39 +0000

That first error seems to point to a communication problem with the ‘begin’ command getting cut off in the middle. Of course it could also be the printer not having enough memory to store the entire file – although I would expect another type of error in that case.
Try printing the job in two or three times. Sending smaller files to the printer likely gets around the issue.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:56:53 +0000

Hi Guy’s

When I print from UNIX to a Canon device, and the print job are about 1500 duplex pages, normally at the end of the print job apear some PS error’s in some pages, but the print sequence continue normally after that.
The PS error’s are:
“ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND:beg
Stack:
-dictionary-
-dictionary-
/Private
-dictionary-
-dictionary-”

“Error: syntaxerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: –nostringval–
STACK:
/*courrier
false
false”

“ERROR: syntaxerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: cvt , -mark-
/sfnts"

can anyone help me?

any suggestion will be appreciate

thanks in advance

Carlos

By: Laurens

Laurens — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:43:29 +0000

That is not really a PostScript error. As far as I know the error message 'The process "pstopdffilter" terminated unexpectedly at signal XX', with XX being 10 or 11 seems to be a system message that appears when you try to print a job to a non-PostScript device. There are a couple of work-arounds that get mentioned on various forums:

If the error appears when printing from Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, try activating the 'Print as Image' option in Acrobat's 'Advanced..' options of the print dialog window. Another work-around is printing the PDF from the Preview application that comes bundled with OS X, instead of printing from Reader.
The error can also pop up in other Adobe apps. The work-around is similar: activate the 'Print as Bitmap' checkbox and select an appropriate high DPI value in the Advanced print options.
The problem occurs more in OS 10.4.10 and .11 than it does in previous releases. Reverting back to an older version of the OS might help. The problem might also be fixed in newer OS version that use an updated print architecture. I haven't found any references about this though.

By: Juliette

Juliette — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:02:18 +0000

on computer says pstopdfilter

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:25:43 +0000

postsript error “~”

anyone know this one?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:48:49 +0000

With CS2 I am getting the error Invalid Paper size Offending command
Stack 1

I have printed using bluebeam PDF revue and works fine
and I have checked paper sizes etc

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:32:37 +0000

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: > ]%%

Stack:
/PaintProc
412.265
/YStep
448.22
/XStep
[447.22 412.265 448.22 412.265]
/BBox
1
/TilingType
1
/PaintType
1
/PatternType
-mark-

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

By: Sergi

Sergi — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:28:43 +0000

Hi all,

I would appreciate some help about a problem I can’t solve myself.

Is is about sending the same PS file to different printservers. First time, it prints on all of them, but the process, deppending on the printserver, blocks the printer.

I’ve cought the error in that cases:

ERROR:undefined.
OFFENDING COMMAND: “\377″

Thanks a lot!!
Sergi.

By: Olga

Olga — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:48:23 +0000

Hi, I need your help in solving a problem with AI file. Illustrator can’t open the file and I get the following message:
offending operator: ”,”
context: %0eP.&/i=b(1,U1,0d&)(2′?0I5!C)Q4s2L92B[*^F_)[K2DcO5/heD34s3$Q+?ht30/4S/+?
Would you help me please.