Problems printing out PDF files

[Tony Alfrey]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 06:43 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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.

Well, if you are interested, send me the file and I will see if I can 
print it with Adobe ACROBAT (not just acroread) which I have on my 
unmentionableOSpartition.

>
> 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.
> >
> >
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