Failed PDF Creation due to Offending pdfmark

Question

I have a large book from which I need to create a PDF. I can create PDFs of individual files; however, when I go to distill the .ps file, creation fails with the following error message in the log file:
%%[Page: 672]%%
%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: pdfmark ]%%
Stack:
[{photoshop_metadata_stream}
(<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 4.2.2-c063 53.352624, 2008/07/30-18:05:41        ">
   <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www....)]
(<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 4.2.2-c063 53.352624, 2008/07/30-18:05:41        ">
   <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www....)
[{photoshop_metadata_stream}
(<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Adobe XMP Core 4.2.2-c063 53.352624, 2008/07/30-18:05:41        ">
   <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www....)]
-mark-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
Other information:
The .book file generates without error.
In PDF setup, I selected the Generate Tagged PDF option.
Patch installation is up to date.
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

I've found one reference online to an ioerror + pdfmark error that was related to the Document Structuring Conventions, so disabling DSC  might be worth a try; in years gone by DSC settings were a source of considerable distillation pain.
I believe you said you have an Acrobat install and not just the one that comes with FM (??), I'm using Acrobat 9 so I don't know if the menu items will be the same in your Distiller or not, but open Distiller, go to Settings and then click on "Edit Adobe PDF settings.
Question: What joboptions settings are you using -- High Quality Print or .... ??
Then click on Settings and find the entry similar to "Edit Adobe PDF settings" which should bring up a dialog similar to this one below:
Click on Advanced, and then check whether DSC is enabled
assuming so, uncheck it. Then do OK, and when the Save dialog comes up save it as a new name (NoDSC.joboptions or whatever).
Now try to create the .ps and pdf, being sure that the NoDSC joboptions are being used when you distill.