Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:03 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim Printed fine here on an HP4000. -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/17/03 08:28 + ++ Silver's Law of Doctoring: It never heals correctly. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On 9/17/2003 8:29 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:03 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim Printed fine here on an HP4000. damn, that sucks. You using CUPS by chance? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:34 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:29 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:03 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim Printed fine here on an HP4000. damn, that sucks. You using CUPS by chance? Yup, Acroread 5.0.5 with kprinter specified as the printer, into CUPS and then to the HP4000 which is a postscript printer. I've had similar problems in the past (unprintable files) and it seems to usually be due to a 'bad character' (binary zero?) in the file. The same printer would light it's 'processing' light and receive the data but would then just turn it off again with nothing happening. I have also seen the printer get screwed up where I had to turn it off and back on for a reset to get it to print. Have you tried printing it to a file and then printing the file? -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/17/03 08:40 + ++ The only difference between a rut and a grave is their size. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On 9/17/2003 8:44 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:34 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:29 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:03 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim Printed fine here on an HP4000. damn, that sucks. You using CUPS by chance? Yup, Acroread 5.0.5 with kprinter specified as the printer, into CUPS and then to the HP4000 which is a postscript printer. I've had similar problems in the past (unprintable files) and it seems to usually be due to a 'bad character' (binary zero?) in the file. The same printer would light it's 'processing' light and receive the data but would then just turn it off again with nothing happening. I have also seen the printer get screwed up where I had to turn it off and back on for a reset to get it to print. Have you tried printing it to a file and then printing the file? I've tried printing it to a file, but the resulting file would be unreadable by ggv, and doesn't print. My printer is an HP960c, which is not a postscript printer. I'm using Acrobat 5.0.5 and kprinter into CUPS, just like you. Perhaps the problem lies in the conversion from PDF to PostScript. What handles that, ghostscript? the printer driver? something else? Thanks, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:52 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:44 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:34 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:29 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:03 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim Printed fine here on an HP4000. damn, that sucks. You using CUPS by chance? Yup, Acroread 5.0.5 with kprinter specified as the printer, into CUPS and then to the HP4000 which is a postscript printer. I've had similar problems in the past (unprintable files) and it seems to usually be due to a 'bad character' (binary zero?) in the file. The same printer would light it's 'processing' light and receive the data but would then just turn it off again with nothing happening. I have also seen the printer get screwed up where I had to turn it off and back on for a reset to get it to print. Have you tried printing it to a file and then printing the file? I've tried printing it to a file, but the resulting file would be unreadable by ggv, and doesn't print. My printer is an HP960c, which is not a postscript printer. I'm using Acrobat 5.0.5 and kprinter into CUPS, just like you. Perhaps the problem lies in the conversion from PDF to PostScript. What handles that, ghostscript? the printer driver? something else? Thanks, Tim Most likely enscript -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/17/03 09:15 + ++ Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell. --Frank ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 9:15 am, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:52 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:44 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:34 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:29 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:03 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim Printed fine here on an HP4000. damn, that sucks. You using CUPS by chance? Yup, Acroread 5.0.5 with kprinter specified as the printer, into CUPS and then to the HP4000 which is a postscript printer. I've had similar problems in the past (unprintable files) and it seems to usually be due to a 'bad character' (binary zero?) in the file. The same printer would light it's 'processing' light and receive the data but would then just turn it off again with nothing happening. I have also seen the printer get screwed up where I had to turn it off and back on for a reset to get it to print. Have you tried printing it to a file and then printing the file? I've tried printing it to a file, but the resulting file would be unreadable by ggv, and doesn't print. My printer is an HP960c, which is not a postscript printer. I'm using Acrobat 5.0.5 and kprinter into CUPS, just like you. Perhaps the problem lies in the conversion from PDF to PostScript. What handles that, ghostscript? the printer driver? something else? Thanks, Tim Most likely enscript Hmmm... Doesn't look like I even *have* an enscript executable... # locate enscript /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml /opt/kde32/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /opt/kde32/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-19.8, KDE 3.1.3, Xfree86 4.2.1 6:30pm up 26 days, 23 min, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.20, 0.09 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 18:33 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 9:15 am, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:52 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:44 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:34 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/17/2003 8:29 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 23:03 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim Printed fine here on an HP4000. damn, that sucks. You using CUPS by chance? Yup, Acroread 5.0.5 with kprinter specified as the printer, into CUPS and then to the HP4000 which is a postscript printer. I've had similar problems in the past (unprintable files) and it seems to usually be due to a 'bad character' (binary zero?) in the file. The same printer would light it's 'processing' light and receive the data but would then just turn it off again with nothing happening. I have also seen the printer get screwed up where I had to turn it off and back on for a reset to get it to print. Have you tried printing it to a file and then printing the file? I've tried printing it to a file, but the resulting file would be unreadable by ggv, and doesn't print. My printer is an HP960c, which is not a postscript printer. I'm using Acrobat 5.0.5 and kprinter into CUPS, just like you. Perhaps the problem lies in the conversion from PDF to PostScript. What handles that, ghostscript? the printer driver? something else? Thanks, Tim Most likely enscript Hmmm... Doesn't look like I even *have* an enscript executable... # locate enscript /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml /opt/kde32/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /opt/kde32/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml /usr/bin/enscript /usr/bin/genscript /usr/share/doc/packages/enscript /usr/share/enscript /usr/share/zsh/4.0.6/functions/_enscript -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/17/03 18:41 + ++ Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first! ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:33, Tim Wunder wrote: Hmmm... Doesn't look like I even *have* an enscript executable... # locate enscript /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /usr/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml /opt/kde32/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.desktop /opt/kde32/share/apps/kdeprint/filters/enscript.xml On this box I am running RH9. It shows an enscript binary in: /usr/bin/enscript And a config file in: /etc/enscript.cfg -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
any acrobat experts here?
greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. -- dep Dotcoms were based on the mathematical idea that if you multiply zero by a sufficiently large number, you've got something. -- Douglas Adams ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
I don't qualify as an expert, but I've identified two likely suspects on my system: /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/app-defaults/AcroRead /home/cmr/.acrobat/prefs There's only one problem. AcroRead defaulted to lpr and, in the print window, I changed it to kprinter, which it now remembers. But I can not find kprinter saved in either of these two files. So, there must be at least one more file that I haven't found. cmr On Tuesday 16 September 2003 06:58 am, you wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:06 am, Mike Reinehr wrote: I don't qualify as an expert, but I've identified two likely suspects on my system: /usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader/intellinux/app-defaults/AcroRead /home/cmr/.acrobat/prefs There's only one problem. AcroRead defaulted to lpr and, in the print window, I changed it to kprinter, which it now remembers. But I can not find kprinter saved in either of these two files. So, there must be at least one more file that I haven't found. I too use kprinter and acroread has remembered that. But I looked and couldn't find it either. cmr On Tuesday 16 September 2003 06:58 am, you wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/16/03 10:15 + ++ If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. acroprefix= /usr/local/Acrobat5 chmod 666 $acroprefix/Reader/intellinux/app-defaults/AcroRead This is the file that stores /usr/bin/lpr if your user can't write to it the setting is non-persistent ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
quoth James McDonald: | acroprefix= /usr/local/Acrobat5 | | chmod 666 $acroprefix/Reader/intellinux/app-defaults/AcroRead | | This is the file that stores /usr/bin/lpr if your user can't write to | it the setting is non-persistent dingdingdingdingding! that did it. many thanks! -- dep Dotcoms were based on the mathematical idea that if you multiply zero by a sufficiently large number, you've got something. -- Douglas Adams ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: any acrobat experts here?
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 7:58 am, someone claiming to be dep wrote: greets. i've been printing from acrobat via cups. the command is lp -d LJIIIDSS. problem is, i cannot get acrobat to remember this, and i cannot find where in the damned thing the print command is stored. i do not object to cracking open just about any part of it in order to hardwire this, but i cannot for the life of me find it. anybody know? tia. Well, while we're on the subject of pdf files and printing... For some reason, I can't print a particular .pdf file and I'm puzzled as to why. Other .pdf files print fine, but not this particular one. I was able to print it at work using the Windows version of Acrobat Reader 6.0, but not at home using acrobat 5.0.5, xpdf, or ggv. If you wanna try, you can find the file here: http://www.thewunders.org/files/CFSStephen.pdf Regards, Tim -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-19.8, KDE 3.1.3, Xfree86 4.2.1 10:55pm up 25 days, 4:48, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.18, 0.12 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
