Conference tnpubs::nacleaf

68.0. "Printerleaf->.PS "bitmap decompression failed" error" by TNPUBS::JONG (Interleaf: A desk's top publishing) Thu Apr 30 1992 13:07

    Question:
    
    	I was trying to create a PostScript file from a large, complex
    	book.  The PostScript filter failed to convert the whole book; instead,
    	I got a second file, and inside it was this message:
    
		Bitmap decompression failed.
		Interleaf encoding
		eras = 2238360 size = 57446 w = 1975 h = 2001
    
    	I tried to print the PostScript file, and in the job log there was
    	this message:
    
    		%LPS-W-UNDEF, undefined: Name not known - offending command
    	is 87fffffffffffffffffffffffc03ffffffffc003
    		%LPS-E-FLUSHING, Rest of Job (to EOJ) will be ignored
    
        It is very difficult to isolate the problem.  I think it is one
        component in one document in the book, because if I take out only
        that component, everything else builds.  Yet the one document builds
        by itself, and even the one page does, and I can print the page and
        the document directly.
       
    	What does it all mean?
    
    Answer:
    
    	Ah, grasshopper, you have not rebooted your workstation lately,
    	have you?  Further, I sense that the component contains a very 
        large bit-mapped image.
    
    	Interleaf was unable to convert one of the bit-mapped images to
    	PostScript notation because of memory or process exhaustion.  The
    	PostScript file created is invalid, and when the printer reached the
    	bit-mapped image, it stopped.
    	
    	To fix this problem, try rebooting your workstation.