File was view only, won't save to PDF - log: OffendingCommand: text (Framemaker 11)

I have been printing a book successfully for weeks now, and today did an edit to one chapter in the book. Now when I save the book as PDF, I get this in the log:
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Text ]%%
Stack:
/Body
/T
-mark-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
I thought I fixed it because it was originally producing a "view only file" message (for the one chapter that I changed) while generating. I renamed the file, turn the lock on and off, and don't get the view only message, but still no PDF, either save-as-pdf of the individual chapter or the whole book.
Can anyone help? I've never encountered this.
Thanks in advance.
Jim

Thanks, Arnis. This is the entire text from the log file:
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Text ]%%
Stack:
/Body
/T
-mark-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

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