any acrobat experts here?

[Tim Wunder]

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