[scribus] PDF error "An error exists on this page"

[Gregory Pittman]

On 03/25/2010 09:11 AM, Marco Boeringa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the 1.3.3.14 stable release of Scribus on Windows XP SP3.
>
> I recently made some adjustments to a Scribus document and exported it
> to PDF. No problems saving or opening the *.sla file in Scribus, and the
> Prelight Verifier did not return any issues (at least not for the PDF
> 1.5 format, I do have some transparencies).
>
> When I tried to print the document, after having it printed and closing
> the print dialog in Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader returned an "an error
> exists on this page" warning, including a message that some elements
> might not be displayed correctly (all did).
>
> I haven't had this before with previous versions of the Scribus document
> and exported PDF's, but it seems a quite common error with PDF documents
> when I Google for the error, but little clue's as to how to solve it.
>
> How do I find out what is wrong with the Scribus document? Any good way
> to find a problematic "object" in Scribus (except Preflight Verifier,
> which didn't turn up anything)?

Did you embed your fonts? This could be the source of such a message.

Greg