Can't distill from Quark 7

I have just bought a new iMac and upgraded to Adobe 8 Professional. I have transferred my data from MacPower Book which has Acrobat 7 on it. I have tried distilling .ps files on Acrobat 8 and it just won't work. When I distill the .ps file on old laptop it works a dream.
Error on log is
Start Time: Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 07:31
Source: /Users/elenaneville/Desktop/028 Ceramco 3 Shades Series V3 EN_Layout 1.ps
Destination: /Users/elenaneville/Desktop/028 Ceramco 3 Shades Series V3 EN_Layout 1.pdf
Adobe PDF Settings: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/Press Quality.joboptions
%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: stringwidth ]%%
Stack:
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF
file produced. ] %%
Distill Time: 2 seconds (00:00:02)
Please-please can someone help. PS I have transferred all the same fonts, so no new fonts or locations.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

There seems to be a clash with your system .dfonts and fonts with the
same name which are not system fonts.
From memory, if you create the PDF with Distiller 7 then it actually
creates a PDF with the incorrect fonts. I seem to think Distiller 8 has
been changed to check-and-flush avoiding the problems.
You might want to double check your font usage from fontbook / suitcase
or whatever your font management application might be?
Re-generate the postscript and try again ...
Jon

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Hi,
I think with this, you can already make good progress in your work.
Good luck!
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Shorter version:
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Ce message a été modifié par: OlivierBerquin

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Rather than continue trying, I clicked "Cancel" instead of Retry, and it says "Your transfer did not complete successfully."
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At the moment, I am scanning the External Drive for bad sectors using the check disk tool in properties. It's frozen
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We use third-party tool to monitor our SAP systems. We receive an error
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when we monitor DB2 database.
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Hi Milan,
I think you have to issue the following command for the affected user.
db2 "grant execute on function saptools.db6pmcf to <user>"
regards, Javier Rocha

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Hi All,
I have the following bunch of code
Session session;
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I get the following error "can not cast from object to int"
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-Thanks

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int maxPageId;
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Can I Select from table skipping extents linked with lost datafiles?

Hi~,
I need your help to recover my database.
I'm using oracle 9.2.0.8 at Fedora 3 with no-archive mode.
and I don't have any backup.
Last night, I experenced hard disk failure.
I tried OS-level recovery, but I lost some datafiles of tablespace.
anyway, I wanted to recover my database without data of lost datafiles.
so, I issued "alter database datafile offline drop" and
start oracle instance.
But, datafiles were not removed from dba_data_files view and
extents linked with lost datafiles were not removed from dba_extents view!
Selecting query of some table containing extents linked with lost data files,
I got "ORA-00376: file xxx cannot be read at this time" message.
So, my question is that..
HOW CAN I SELECT FROM THAT TABLE WITHOUT SCANNING EXTENTS LINKED WITH LOST DATA FILES?
Thanks.

Hi,
Without being in archivelog and without backup, one can't do any sort of recovery. That's why backups and archivelog are so so important.
The offline data file command never does actually drop the datafile. It merely indicates to the control file that now the said tablespace will also be dropped. This won't update any view that the files are not supposed to be used or shown to you anymore.
This is what documentation says about the recovery of the database in the NoARch mode,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/osrecov.htm#i1007937
You do need a backup in order to get those tables being read. Oracle doesn't have any feature which can offline/skip the missing extents for you and let you read the data without them.
HTH
Aman....

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