[xep-support] %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ea ]%% from distiller

[David Cramer]

Ok, actually it was broken even for Ghostscript, but I figured it out 
through trial and error. In case anybody else has the same problem, 
here's what it turned out to be:

In xep.xml, in my font-family, I had this:

        <font style="oblique"><font-data 
afm="CheltenhamCdITC-LightItalic.afm" 
pfb="CheltenhamCdITC-LightItalic.pfb"/></font>
        <font weight="bold"><font-data afm="CheltenhamCdITC-Bold.afm" 
pfb="CheltenhamCdITC-Bold.pfb"/></font>
        <font weight="bold" style="oblique"><font-data 
afm="CheltenhamCdITC-BoldItalic.afm" 
pfb="CheltenhamCdITC-BoldItalic.pfb"/></font>

Changing it to this worked:

        <font style="italic" weight="normal"><font-data 
afm="CheltenhamCdITC-LightItalic.afm" 
pfb="CheltenhamCdITC-LightItalic.pfb"/></font>
        <font weight="bold"><font-data afm="CheltenhamCdITC-Bold.afm" 
pfb="CheltenhamCdITC-Bold.pfb"/></font>
        <font weight="bold" style="oblique"><font-data 
afm="CheltenhamCdITC-BoldItalic.afm" 
pfb="CheltenhamCdITC-BoldItalic.pfb"/></font>

I'm guessing that mixing oblique and italic in the same <font-family> 
confused it. Maybe I stumbled on a subtle bug?

David

David Cramer wrote:

> Btw., the postscript file will convert to pdf just fine using ps2pdf 
> (Ghostscript). That would be ok, but one feature that is lost using 
> Ghostscript is the automatic logical pagination. That works in 
> Distiller, but not in pdfs produced by Ghostscript: 
> http://www.renderx.net/lists/xep-support/3999.html
>
> So let me know how to work around either of those problems and I'll be 
> happy :-)
>
> David
>
> David Cramer wrote:
>
>> Using XEP 4.5, I can generate pdfs fine. When I generate a postscript 
>> file, though, I can't process it with Distiller. I always get an 
>> error like the following (where the specific "OffendingCommand" 
>> varies from doc to doc, but it is some random two character string). 
>> I've made the XEP-generated .ps file and the fo file from which is 
>> was generated available at:
>>
>> http://www.thingbag.net/foo.zip
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> Start Time: Monday, August 21, 2006 at 10:34 AM
>> Destination: 
>> C:\workhead\docmodules\mary\stage\enus\frankenhelp\motive-pdf\downdir\foo.pdf 
>>
>> Source: foo.ps
>> %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ea ]%%
>>
>> Stack:
>> -mark-
>>
>> %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
>> %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
>> Distill Time: 0 seconds (00:00:00)
>> **** End of Job ****
>>
>>
>>
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