On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:15:04PM -0500, John Perkins wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002 21:01:25 -0700 > Akop Pogosian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Very often I meet people who complain that they have problems > > printing various PDF files on our printers (mostly HP). For example, I > > just run lpq and got this message: > > > > Filter_status: Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ~ at 20:50:15.199 > > > > The user tried printing the same file from acrobat reader or by > > converting it to postscript with ghostscript first. Does anyone know > > what's going on? > > I've run across this one regularly when printing to HP LaserJets... > > I suspect it's usually a font-related problem when it happens here. Sometimes >rendering to PS Level 1 rather than PS Level 2 (or vice versa) will make the document >print. Other times users must use gv/gs/pdf2ps/etc. or xpdf to do the rendering. >Still other documents flat out will not print at all. > > This using GS 7.03, xpdf 1.0 and acroread 4.05 (latest Linux/Solaris release). > > I recommend changing the PS Level in acroread first, then move to other PDF >processors.
Our ghostscript version was ancient, indeed. Upgrading to gs 7.04 fixed the problem for the files I have tried. -akop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
