On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:17:41PM EDT, Carl Fink wrote: [..] > > So what the heck is going on?
Never had any problems printing .gov forms on a linux system with cups and a native ps printer so I thought I'd give it a shot: . gpdf never displays the document.. 100% cpu.. had to issue a kill . gv returns and "unrecoverable error" . converting the saved document to ps via pdf2ps gives an error message . in kpdf the first four pages are ok. the form itself (p. 5) is garbled . printing from kpdf invokes kprint and works with a caveat: the fifth page takes much longer to print and is - as could be expected - garbled. the "garbling" is that the first two columns of the form are rendered as as dark grey rectangle with a bunch of large right arrow characters on a white background. This is a sarge box and the pdf version of the document is 1.6 which would appear to be higher than most .pdf's I have on this machine. So to me this looks like the versions of most pdf/ps utilities that I have on this box do not support this version of PDF? Perhaps you could try upgrading to more recent versions of the pdf rendering software? What makes me say this is that kpdf *almost* manages to display the document.. So something a bit more recent might work. As to your woes with cups.. I would think that you are probably feeding it an invalid format (ps or other..) with some garbage in the input ending up being interpreted as control characters.. so all kinds of weird things might happen. HTH Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
