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Poster:	stbalbach	Date:	December 30, 2011 06:02:59pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Admin help, Derivation failed

For The Billboard, Volume 20 (July 4 1908 - Sept 26 1908), uploaded to Community Texts, resulted in task id 92548236, with error "exceeds 2 GB, quitting here to flag need for investigation."

Help appreciated thanks.
Stephen

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Poster:	Jeff Kaplan	Date:	December 31, 2011 02:28:28pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Admin help, Derivation failed

ok, the item should be good now.

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Poster:	stbalbach	Date:	January 03, 2012 10:42:23am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Admin help, Derivation failed

Hi it did derive, but every other page is blank, or has big blank sections, the original PDF doesn't have blank spaces. Appears to be a problem in the derivation.

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Poster:	Jeff Kaplan	Date:	January 03, 2012 10:48:14am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Admin help, Derivation failed

it is images that are missing. pdfs can be complex and in some cases the way the images are embedded can cause them to fail in derive.

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Poster:	stbalbach	Date:	January 03, 2012 11:29:13am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Admin help, Derivation failed

Ok I left a note about it, to download the full PDF.

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Poster:	garthus	Date:	January 03, 2012 01:37:28pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Admin help, Derivation failed

stbalbach,

What program did you use to create the PDF file?

Gerry

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Poster:	stbalbach	Date:	January 03, 2012 05:56:51pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Admin help, Derivation failed

It's from Google Books

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Poster:	garthus	Date:	January 04, 2012 04:37:13pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Admin help, Derivation failed

Stbalbach,

Try downloading the file, opening it in Irfanview, check the security on the file, I generally strip everything out, make sure it is not an embedded text file, and then re-save it as an Irfanview PDF file. I ran into such problems when pulling public domain stuff off other sites, PDF, video, audio files. I try not to use Adobe or Microsoft applications since often they stick crap in the file which causes corruption.

If this does not work there are other things which can be tried.

Gerry