On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Rick Cochran wrote: > At Cornell we have an exponentially increasing number of PDF documents > being used in courses. Nationally, even the US government is using > PDF. Whether or not you like the idea of the entire world becoming > totally dependent on a proprietary document format, it's a done deal. > > Although only a small percentage of PDF files cause printing problems > (eg. "Offending command" errors, printer hangs, gibberish), this is out > of an ever-increasing total, and it's starting to be a real problem.
We have exactly the same problem here, but we are running Solaris. [cut] >They have a point. They also have everyone over a barrel. That's why >I'm going to be looking for manufacturers which offer licensed Adobe >PostScript next time I buy printers. I don't think you will find _any_ new lasers with licensed Abobe postscript. [cut] > However, hidden in the Lexmark driver's maze of "properties" (under the > "PostScript" tab) is the "Disable PostScript Passthrough" option. Using > this option, together with the "Send as ASCII85" (instead of "Send as > Tagged Binary") option, causes all of the documents I have tested so far > to print properly - and with better quality than when using the Acrobat > Reader "Print as Image" option. Approx. a year ago we had problems with some PDF files that wouldn't print. Then I upgraded lprng and removed some old print filters. And the PDF problems got worse, an absolute nightmare. What fixed this problem was 1) enabling tbcp - the lexmarks we have requires this to be able to print certain docs. and 2) downgrading Acrobat Reader from 4.05 --> 4.0. Apparently the 4.05 has some bugs related to printing, although the changelog says "fixed printing related bugs" for this version....thanks Adobe!;-) One actually has to check carefully which version of Acrobat Reader is installed, because if one looks in the "About Acrobat Reader..." dialog it says "4.0" for both versions. 4.0 is the version from June 24 1999. Best regards, Johan Bengtsson -- http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~elijah/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
