printing pdf files? -- solved

[C M Reinehr]

Great! Glad to hear it.

A question none of us thought to ask was whether you had a postscript 
capable printer! In which case you could just send the printout directly 
to the printer without resorting to ghostscript.

cmr

dep wrote:

> quoth Roger Oberholtzer:
> 
> | I think you are screwed. I had a form to print in a similar way. All
> | the printing programs ultimately use ghostscript. If ghostscript
> | won't show it, the system won't print it. And, my experience is that
> | you get no error. It just goes into the ozone. But, saving to a file
> | in postscript and then checking it interactively with gv shows the
> | problem.
> 
> interestingly, i found the solution. gv and ghostscript as shipped with 
> suse 8.2 (and everywhere else i can find) are, um, suck-enabled. 
> monicaware.
> 
> however . . . printing from acrobat is possible. the syntax is 
> lp -d [printername] (in my case, LJIIIDSS; printername[s] can be learned 
> by typing lpstat -p at a bash prompt, which any user may do)

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