Problems printing out PDF files

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I tried to print the document with windows XP pro off my laptop while
the laptop was hooked up to my home network, and it still wouldn't
print. I am using the HP driver laserjet III with ps support to print
them, both on the linux side and the windows side. That is, both the
windows laptop and the linux desktop send a postscript file to my linux
printing box, which runs propietary linux drivers from Lexmark which
converts postscript into something my Z53 understands.

The odd thing is that pdf2ps produces valid postscript which displays
and prints fine. So, it really sounds more like an acroread issue,
both in windows and in linux, than an issue with the pdf.

Joel


 wOn Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:34:43AM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tony Alfrey
> tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
> "I'd rather be sailing"
> 
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