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the "applying transformations to {filename}failed" could occur because of unrelated errors. The temporary work around is to go through the wizard steps of doing a full deploy (Build->Publish Web Site).

Did you know....

There are multiple types of DNS record but the two you probably care about are A and CNAME.

"A" records point to IP addresses and are required for the domain root to work.

"CNAME" records point to urls and are required for subdomains to work.

this.com is a domain. Well technically .com is the domain and this.com is a subdomain of the top level domain (TLD) .com.

www is a subdomain of the second level domain this.com. But for casual conversation you won't care. And that is probably fine. But it's all pretty fascinating. Main thing is, if you're speaking with network minded people about getting things done, the same words can be used to mean pretty different concepts.

DNS records are stored in zone files

Zone files are stored on name servers

To make a domain resolve to a web server, you need an empty A record pointing to the IP of that server.

The empty DNS A record is sometime symbolized by an @ sign.

You can also have wildcard DNS records, symbolized by the asterisk (*)

A wildcard DNS entry will only catch traffic for subdomains that are not defined later in the DNS zone file. Not for "everything" (the way wildcards typically behave)

It also helps if you point your domain to the correct name servers.

The YouTube Creators are doing free video production workshops Wednesdays at noon. The workshops will cover pre-production, production, and post-production.

View the full schedule

You drop in on any that you like or go back and view recordings of the ones you've missed on the YouTube Creators Google+ page.

In addition to the opportunity to learn more about video production, this is a chance to see how G+ works as a method for sharing information and connecting with your audience(s).

Problem

You've meticulously tagged a PDF form using Acrobat X but when you run the Accessibility Full Check, you get this message.

Wrong type parameter supplied to a PDS procedure.

Possible Solution

Check for form fields (usually tagged "FieldName - OBJR" by default) that have duplicate tags. One of them is the cause of the error. Delete one (or both) of them and retag the form field (annotation).

Background

Googling this shows that this could happen for a few different reasons but they all have something to do with form fields.

Using that clue as a starting point I made a copy of my completed PDF and started the classic troubleshooting divide and conquer. Once I figured out that I only got the error message on page 2, I started deleting sections of tags on that page until I could get the check to run again. 

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