Acrobat 5.0 shuts down when inserting pages

[Tisha_Guston@adobeforums.com]

I've tried numerous times to insert a page into a .pdf document and every time Acrobat 5.0 shuts down. I've tried printing to the distiller - and that doesn't work either - distiller doesn't recognize the postscript document created. I'm working on OS X. Any suggestions?

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

Please outline your EXACT procedure ..

Jon

[Tisha_Guston@adobeforums.com]

I'm taking an application that is two separate pages in Quark 6.1 and saving as .eps files. I then open them in Acrobat Distiller and save as .pdf. When I open the first page of the application in Acrobat 5.0 and try to insert the second page, the program freezes then shuts down.

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

While it is a problem that Acrobat crashes, this is not a recommended
way of working. Especially, distilling EPS files is not recommended
because it increases the chance of font problems. And because it's a
very tedious way to do 100 pages!

You should distill a PostScript file, made by printing to file from
XPress.

Aandi Inston

[Tisha_Guston@adobeforums.com]

I've also tried this - and the distiller doesn't recognize the format. It saves the file as a .ps instead of a .ppd - any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

Aandi is correct - we are not trying to avoid the situation ... but his
suggestion is the way in which 99% of us all work.

Car companies suggest we put petrol in the tank ... not up the exhaust
.... since the it can damage the car .. ;-)

Jon

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

..ps is correct ... what happens when you drag this .ps file over the
bottom half of Distiller?

Jon

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

>I've also tried this - and the distiller doesn't recognize the format

Distiller should open a file if it is PostScript. What happens?

>. It saves the file as a .ps instead of a .ppd

That's what it's supposed to do.

> any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?

Can you describe, step by step, how you make the PostScript file?


Aandi Inston

[Tisha_Guston@adobeforums.com]

It acts like it is distilling (which is farther than I got before), but then at the end of the message display it says "Warning: Empty job. No PDF file produced"

[Tisha_Guston@adobeforums.com]

When I save as a postscript file, I have the document in Quark on screen. I then go to print the file. I don't have a postscript printer on my network, so I created a "virtual" printer on localhost (found this in the help section of Quark). I then select the localhost as a printer and go to output options - and select postscript file and save.

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

Tisha,

Link here: [url]http://www.certitec.com[/url] - go to the TOP MIDDLE drop-down and
select QUARK 6 PDF .....

... and then drop the .ps file onto Distiller 5 ..

Jon

[Tisha_Guston@adobeforums.com]

Okay - I've figured out how to distill. That works fine now. Still having the same problem with Acrobat 5.0 shutting down when I try to insert pages. I'm stuck and don't know what to do.

Tisha

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

Either you did not see the message I just posted ... or you are NOT
creating a .ps file with all the pages as one ?

Does this make sense?

Jon

[Tisha_Guston@adobeforums.com]

It does now!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been trying for a week to get this to work. Just needed the right way to do it. Thanks again! Tisha