PDF woes

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:16:07 +0100
Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:

> Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > I also am using CUPS.
> > 
> > Checking the documentation I see that CUPS provides a version of
> > ghostscript called gs-esp:
> > 
> >   Description: The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter - ESP version
> >     Ghostscript is used for postscript preview and printing.  Usually as
> >     a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display postscript
> >     documents in an X11 environment.
> > 
> >     Furthermore, it can render postscript files as graphics to be
> >     printed on non-postscript printers.  Supported printers include
> >     common dot-matrix, inkjet and laser models.
> >  
> >     Package gsfonts contains a set of standard fonts for ghostscript.
> >  
> >     This version of gs is a fork of GNU Ghostscript with updated drivers
> >     and patches, intended mostly for use with the Common UNIX Printing
> >     System (CUPS) from Easy Software Products (www.easysw.com).  The
> >     ESP Ghostscript homepage is available at:
> >  
> >     http://espgs.sourceforge.net
> > 
> > 
> > This may be why systems using CUPS are not having problems, while
> > systems using the standard gs are.
> 
> I just tentatively switched my printing system to LPRng, which can be 
> done on-the-fly in RH9. LPRng uses plain ghostscript (as well as cups on 
> my system, I'd bet), but got the same results: Rogers's pages print fine.
> Just another guess: I saw in Acrobat's document properties that the 
> pages were PDF level 1.4 which might not be supported by older versions 
> of ghostscript?

The ghostscript is: ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1 (On both SUSE 9 and Gentoo.)

I have tried Acrobat doing Level 1, 2 and 3 PostScript files.

My printing system on both is CUPS.

Can I send someone a .ps file from Acrobat so they can see if it is my file
or my ghostscript?



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