any acrobat experts here?

[Bruce Marshall]

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?



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