Problems printing out PDF files

[Tony Alfrey]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 06:00 am, kwall at hunley.homeip.net wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:05:10AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:46:47 -0500 Joel Hammer 
<Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> > > My daughter is printing out pdf applications for grad school. We
> > > get various errors with acroread, but basically some documents
> > > don't print. Here is one type of error. If I print the document
> > > to a file, here is what I get with gv.
> > >
> > > Error: /invalidfont in -dict-
>
> Any chance the PDFs were created with MS Word? I've had this problem
> at work, and the issue is that Word embeds some funky font code that
> prevents the thing from printing.


I often have this problem with pdf files downloaded from the web (tech 
data sheets, product literature, etc.)  They print in Windows, but not 
in linux, even though I have the latest linux version of acroread.


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Tony Alfrey
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