On Wednesday 19 November 2003 06:43 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: > Well, I tried to print the document with windows XP pro off my laptop > while the laptop was hooked up to my home network, and it still > wouldn't print. I am using the HP driver laserjet III with ps support > to print them, both on the linux side and the windows side. That is, > both the windows laptop and the linux desktop send a postscript file > to my linux printing box, which runs propietary linux drivers from > Lexmark which converts postscript into something my Z53 understands. > > The odd thing is that pdf2ps produces valid postscript which displays > and prints fine. So, it really sounds more like an acroread issue, > both in windows and in linux, than an issue with the pdf.
Well, if you are interested, send me the file and I will see if I can print it with Adobe ACROBAT (not just acroread) which I have on my unmentionableOSpartition. > > Joel > > wOn Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:34:43AM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 06:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:05:10AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:46:47 -0500 Joel Hammer > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My daughter is printing out pdf applications for grad school. > > > > > We get various errors with acroread, but basically some > > > > > documents don't print. Here is one type of error. If I print > > > > > the document to a file, here is what I get with gv. > > > > > > > > > > Error: /invalidfont in -dict- > > > > > > Any chance the PDFs were created with MS Word? I've had this > > > problem at work, and the issue is that Word embeds some funky > > > font code that prevents the thing from printing. > > > > I often have this problem with pdf files downloaded from the web > > (tech data sheets, product literature, etc.) They print in > > Windows, but not in linux, even though I have the latest linux > > version of acroread. > > > > > > -- > > Tony Alfrey > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "I'd rather be sailing" > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > > http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
