I thought that getting a newer version of corel draw and getting a better computer would have solve almost all my PDF creation problems I had before. Apparently, I was wrong. I am not sure if it's Corel draw which is full of bugs and never do things right, or if it's me who try to do something impossible.
I am trying to create my PDF for the Remake/variant of Vinci I made. There is 2 files which contains first the civilization cards and second the map, scoring sheet and tokens. So far, I had no problems creating PDF for the cards except for huge file size. I change the compression for JPEG instead of ZIP and it seems to have made the file approximately 75% smaller.
Now I am trying to print the maps and I always get a bug in the middle of the file. The file does not print completely. But if I print the pages separately, I don't get any problems. So I was wondering if I did something wrong in the file that create a certain bug at a certain point. Here is some screen shots:
This is page 7-8 printed alone:
http://ariel.bdeb.qc.ca/~ericp/tempbgdf/PDFP1_First%20part.png
This is page 9-10 printed alone:
http://ariel.bdeb.qc.ca/~ericp/tempbgdf/PDFP2_Second%20Part.png
Now if I print page 7-10 together I get:
http://ariel.bdeb.qc.ca/~ericp/tempbgdf/PDFP3_Combined.png
After this page I get en error and there is no more pages afterward.
Does any of you have an idea of what could create this bug?
I think I sucessfully printed everything once when the DPI setting was really low. Right now I am using 300 DPI. I currently using the Corel's "Publish to PDF" function. I tried with cute PDF and It printed in very low resolution and had some other problems I can't remember.
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I don't know if this can be useful, here is the file information given by Corel Draw:
File
Name and location: D:\Eric\300 Hobby\310 Jeux\312 Jeux Publies\312.1 Jeux Table\312.13 Guerre\Vinci\Prototype\mapset01CD12.cdr
File size: 6.01MB (6306960 bytes)
Created: May-21-09 9:07:12 PM
Modified: May-25-09 11:09:20 AM
Attributes: Archive
Document
Pages: 12
Layers: 9
Page size: Letter (8.50000 x 11.00000in.)
Page orientation: Portrait
Resolution: 300 dpi
Graphic Objects
Number of objects: 1019
Number of points: 32817
Max. # of curve points: 482
Max. # of curve subpaths: 24
Groups: 8
Curves: 279
Rectangles: 521
Ellipses: 48
Text Statistics
Paragraph text frames: 18
Paragraphs: 144
Artistic text: 150
Lines: 295
Words: 889
Characters: 4900
Type 1 fonts: 1
TrueType fonts: 7
Fonts used:
Beffle
Adobe Fangsong Std R
Arial
Times New Roman
Wingdings
CaslonOpenFace
Lucida Console
Bitmap Objects
Bitmaps: 3
Embedded (Drop shadow - 32 bits, 357900 bytes)
Embedded (Drop shadow - 32 bits, 673500 bytes)
Embedded (Drop shadow - 32 bits, 3679632 bytes)
Styles
Graphic (total): 22
Default Graphic: 294
Reference Sheet: 8
Port: 12
Mine: 12
Shoal Outline: 15
Terrain Mountain: 18
Terrain Desert: 12
Terrain Grasslands: 12
Terrain Plains: 12
Terrain Forest: 12
Shoal: 48
Sea: 6
Token VP Golden: 46
Token Brown: 32
Token Brick Wall: 28
Token Pillar: 44
Token White: 40
Token Green: 40
Token Yellow: 40
Token Red: 40
Token Gray: 40
Token Blue: 40
Artistic text (total): 1
Default Artistic Text: 150
Paragraph text (total): 1
Default Paragraph Text: 18
Effects
Lens: 113
Transparency: 113
Drop Shadows: 3
Fills
No fill: 63
Uniform: 412
Pattern: 544
Objects and Color models
CMYK: 412
Outlines
No outline: 214
Uniform: 774
Objects and Color models
CMYK: 774
It can't be a printer problem because I only create PDF. I don't have a printer.
As the idea of combining PDF could be something I have not tought about. I have a small program called PDF 995 which does PDF combination. So yes I could print them separately and then combine them. Thanks for the tip.
There could still be problems after the combination, but let's hope it works.