PDF Creator adds blank page and page with syntax error

2008-09-17 03:21:51 by kestril00

We use PDFCreator 0.9.5 in our accounting firm to create PDFs of tax returns created by Ultra Tax (Thomson Creative Solutions product). Sometimes, but not all the time, and we have not been able to find a specific trigger, it will add to additional pages to the end of the PDF file, the first will be blank, and the second will contain this error message:

syntaxerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: --nostringval--
STACK:
/Title
()
/Subject
(D:20080916172717-07’00’)
/ModDate
()
/Keywords
(PDFCreator Version 0.9.5)
/Creator
(D:20080916172717-07’00’)
/CreationDate
(kns)
/Author
-mark-

Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

TIA, Kat

2008-10-22 00:50:19 by davidoptrics

I also have run across that problem. After creating the pdf it adds a blank page and then:


ERROR: syntaxerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: --nostringval--
STACK:
/Title
()
/Subject
(21.10.2008 16:43:13)
/ModDate
()
/Keywords
(PDFCreator Version 0.8.1)
/Creator
(21.10.2008 16:43:13)
/CreationDate
(Administrator)
/Author
-mark


While it's not "terrible", it's certainly annoying. I'd appreciate any ideas.

David

2008-10-22 07:39:17 by banza23

Above problem happen all the time in my program (with PDFCreator 0.95). To avoid this just set option StandardTitle.

code:

opt = PDFCreator.cOptions
opt.StandardTitle = "Your Title"


2008-10-22 15:07:29 by thesmilyface

Please use version 0.9.6.

Frank

2009-02-26 17:12:09 by Rail_Fan

We have come across this problem when there is a special standard character ( \ / : * ? “ < > | [ ] & $ , . % ) in the file name. If you remove the character from the file name the error and extra pages stop.