On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 12:58:29 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>I download monthly business account statements from my bank's website >as PDF files and save them with names I give them. (My names are >different from the string of numbers the bank gives them.) For a >reason I've not yet found, they will not print from the command line >(lpr) nor from within xpdf. They display in the CUPS jobs page as >'rendering completed' but never make it to the printer. Using >MasterPDFEditor I can print them. However, despite MPE being >configured to print double-sided they come out single sided. > >If you have any thoughts on why a) they won't print using lpr or that >command within xpdf or b) why they print single-sided while the >printer is configured for double-sided printing please share them with >me. I would wager good money that the problem lies with your bank. It is possible to embed all kinds of restrictions in PDF files, and your bank may have (probably without realizing it) restricted the printing to single sided. I say 'without realizing it' because they probably use Adobe Acrobat, which has pre-configured sets of restrictions If I am right the best way to solve the problem is to kvetch at your bank. In the meantime, or in case I am wrong, there are other tools that you can use to bypass the restrictions, including some for xpdf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf I have half a dozen GUI PDF viewers installed, plus another handful of command line tools. In the GUI department my go-to viewer is Evince, mostly because I frequently have problems printing from other OSS viewers, e.g., printing from Okular results in a landscape page regardless of which orientation I specify, and there are similar problems with the other viewers. There are other things I might try: Ghostscript can open a PDF file and then save as a straight Postscript file. Okular (formerly KPDF) can give you information about how the file was created, including the program used and embedded security. PDF Chain describes itself as 'A graphical user interface for the PDF Toolkit.' Foxit Reader is a free, but not open source PDF viewer. Like Okular it provides properties, including more detail about security than Okular. My first step would be to explore the security restrictions embedded in the file. If there are no restrictions on printing, then I am wrong and you should ignore everything I say. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
