any acrobat experts here?

[Bruce Marshall]

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

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