shrug-l: Exporting to PDF

[Kimberly Steele]

 Hello,

I am using ArcGIS 9.2 SP2  I have tried several different options and
can't seem to create a PDF from ArcGIS. The map project has an image and
approximately 14 other themes. I read all the help files in ESRI
support. One of the themes I have set to traransparency set to 50%. The
export makes it to 50% and hangs I just to see if it would ever complete
let it go for 24 hours and still didn't budge, but the world was still
spinning.

I have my resolution to 50dpi, ration 1:5 low.   that had no effect.

I also read to group the layers that seem to help now it will export 70%
and then hang.

I turned the layers off that I had transparency set. That had no effect,
still hanging on 50%.

I set the transparent layers that are still turned off back to 0% and
still hanging on 50%.

I read some suggestions to export the EPS then use another software to
export to PDF, this seems wrong in so many ways. I would think that
there is distortion in each conversion. Not to mention the time involved
to convert it twice.

Is this a bug? I don't recall having this much trouble in previous
version and I exported projects with images pretty regular with a 200dpi
without any problems.

I have spent WAY TOO much time on this, time I don't have or ever will
get back. Thanks in advance for anything you might add that I haven't
tried.

Kimberly Steele
ksteele at co.okaloosa.fl.us