Sending to RIP - No Pages

[trevorware]

I have a job that I've done in Quark 5.0 - When I send it to the RIP it transfer normally - but when I process the job it says " Job was interpreted successfully but contained no pages " It shows 98MB's so I know something has to be there. Any idea why it's giving me this message?

tw.

[Lammy]

is it just one page or several? typically an error saying no pages were produced is a result of bad PS code that forces to rip to pretty much ignore everything after that line. It could be a font, or a bad picture box or a bad eps file.

[trevorware]

It's a large document (17 x 22) with A LOT of pictures. What I dont get is that the page repeats the same eight graphics 18 times. So I just layed out the eight pics correctly then drug them over to my 17x22 layout... 18 times. After I got the error message I went and sent my first layout, (just the eight original graphics) to the rip - just to test and make sure it wasn't the graphics. They went over and processed perfectly. So it can't be the graphics. So I redid the entire layout, and redrug over the 8 graphic layout (18 times, again) and sent it to the rip. Crapola. Same error. I was tiling the original 17x22 layout, so I've just done a 17x11 layout which I can just step at the plates. Im trying that right now; maybe the tiling was screwing it up. If you have any further ideas please share. Thanks for the help.

trevor

also, there are no fonts involved in the job.

[Kakuzo]

I'd agree with Lammy. Sounds like you have corruption in the Quark layout itself. Try a thumbnail drag.

Go to thumbnail view of the problem doc.
Create a new blank document at the exact size of the first one.
Go to thumbnail view of the second doc.
Place them side by side so you can see both of them.
Grab the thumbnail (the page itself, not in the Pages palette) of the first job and drag it into the new file.
Try to RIP.

Thumbnail dragging usually clears out corruption in Quark layouts.
Its saved my butt a couple times.