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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Printing with PDFExporter Oct 27^th, 2011 at 1:50pm	Print Post
	I am using .NET 3.5 with the NetDiagram trial. When I use the PDFExporter class to create a PDF of my diagram, it produces always produces an error: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: limitcheck ]%% I am getting this error regardless of the type of printer or if I use the Adobe PDF writer. How do I resolve this error?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #1 - Oct 27^th, 2011 at 2:22pm	Print Post
	What exactly shows this error? Is it from the details of some exception?


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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #2 - Oct 27^th, 2011 at 2:23pm	Print Post
	This is from the PDF Printer driver. For the actual physical printers, it prints about 1/2 of the diagram and then prints a sheet with this error.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #3 - Oct 27^th, 2011 at 2:38pm	Print Post
	From this it seems there is some kind of limit associated with length of PDF graphics paths: ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/CorelDRAW/DRAW3Suite/2023.txt Are you using any curved shape or a shape with more complex outline? If you follow the "Find the offending object" method described above, can you identify which node or link causes the error? In the diagram case, it should be the node one position higher in the Z order than the last item printed successfully.


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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #4 - Oct 27^th, 2011 at 7:41pm	Print Post
	The error appears to occur after 40 rectangles have been inserted (I create 4 rectangles at a time, and created 10 copies. At 11 copies, I get the error). Here's how I lay the rectangles out: topRectangle -> header rectangle -> description rectangle -> detailed info rectangle The header, description, and detailed info rectangle shapes are attached to topRectangle using AttachTo with percentages specified for the location. Each rectangle has text specified (no special characters). There are no diagramlinks or any other shapes in the diagram. I then export a visio file an a pdf file using the appropriate exporter classes. I can send a copy of the code via private message if that will help.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #5 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 7:42am	Print Post
	I cannot reproduce it by exporting only rectangular nodes with text. Could you email a saved diagram xml file to support@mindfusion.eu?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #6 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 12:52pm	Print Post
	Does PDF Reader show the PDF correctly, and you get the error only when printing? I can see 11 groups of nodes in the PDF, as much as in the XML file. Printing the attached PDF on our Xerox Phaser printer from Adobe Reader 9.4.6 worked fine too. I will download PdfWriter now to test what happens with it.


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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #7 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 1:04pm	Print Post
	We using Adobe Reader 10.1.0 to view/print the file. I can open the file and view it fine. I just cannot produce a printout of the document. I am having the same issue when printing to our Xerox ColorCube 8870.


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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #8 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 1:19pm	Print Post
	I just forwarded a scanned copy of the printout from our printer.


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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #9 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 1:24pm	Print Post
	Here is the actual errror from Adobe PDF Distiller(using CS4): %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: limitcheck ]%% Stack: 32 -dict- %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #10 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 3:16pm	Print Post
	Yes, I got this error too when printing from PDF Reader to the "Adobe PDF" printer. Doing some further tests, printing from Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/) to the PDF printer worked correctly, and printing from Acrobat X Pro worked correctly too. So I think that's a bug in Adobe's PDF Reader, it seems it does not generate correct Postscript code when printing graphics. I hope that helps, Stoyan


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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #11 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 5:01pm	Print Post
	We were unable to print to the printer using Adobe Pro either. I've done some more diagnosis of the problem. It appears to be related to the text in the shape. If I draw the shapes without text it prints without errors, but adding text back in throws the error. It doesn't matter if it is in a attached shape or at the top level shape. There no chance we can get the Foxit Reader installed as this will reside on a government based system.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #12 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 6:41pm	Print Post
	Ok, I have found a thread in our email archive where my coworker discussed the same error with a customer a few years ago. The error started to happen after the customer upgraded to Adobe Reader 9, and after some tests our developers found it happens because of clip paths that PdfExporter creates for nodes. As a work-around we have added a DisableTextClipping property to PdfExporter and that solved the problem then. Please check if it will work for you, but note that disabling clipping might lead to some side effects, such as longer texts being clipped on screen but not in PDF. I hope that helps, Stoyan


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moneyjh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 27^th, 2011	Re: Printing with PDFExporter Reply #13 - Oct 31^st, 2011 at 1:20pm	Print Post
	That's fixed it. Thanks!


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