I am having trouble printing to PDF.

When I try to print to PDF from any software I get this error message:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%%
Stack:
-57
-mark-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
PLEASE HELP!!!

This is an error given by Distiller during the conversion process. Try printing selected pages to narrow down where the xshow is located and try to determine what the problem might be. You could also do a Print-to-File, Open Distiller, and load the file. You should be able to watch the process and get the page the error occurs on. The information on Google suggests some font type issue. So apparently you are using a font that Adobe does not like (xshow) and it may be that it is not licensed for embedding or some similar issue.
Can you print any other PDFs, particularly simple text files?

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