PDF woes

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:23:11 -0700
Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:04:49 -0600
> Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> 
> > It must be something to do with your setup. I have no problem
> > printing, here.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you call them, but I'm seeing increasing numbers of
> > these "fill-in-form" type of pdf files. In general, you can print the
> > form, completed or otherwise, but you only can save the basic
> > un-edited file. I get a warning when I attempt to save the file, that
> > only the basic file will be saved, not the changes, and that I must
> > purchase Adobe Acrobat in order to save an edited file.
> > 
> > HTH.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> 
> The problem I encountered today (trying to print a form from a
> University financial aid site) reminded me of something I discovered
> some time ago but had forgotten.  There are some PDF documents that
> appear to work only with Acrobat Reader 6.0 (the windows version). As
> long as the linux acroread  software remains stuck at 5.x, these
> documents cannot be printed, because acroread 5.x generates bogus
> postscript from these documents. Even if you print to a file first, the
> document is not printable. I had to boot up my WinXP machine to print
> the form I needed.

For me the problem is still not solved. Whatever is on Caldera 3.1.1 will
not work. Whatever is on an up-to-date Gentoo will not work. However,
the software on SUSE 9 will create a printable PostScript file. It just
cannot be converted to PDF (the possible reason having been given earlier in
this thread).

What I do not understand is that the Gentoo and SUSE systems are running the
same version of Acroread and ghostview. So the mystery continues. Something
is different. I just have no more time to spend on this at this time.

I have since gone to the Embassy and just filled in a form there. I just
could not bring my self to using Windows. There 'was' an alternative.

As to just printing from SUSE, well, I have uncovered another thing: my SUSE
box is not accessing the CUPS printers on the CUPS server (which runs
Caldera 3.1.1). It finds the server, but not the printers. This works
between two Caldera boxes.

Any you know, not long ago all my printing was working just fine. But noooo.
I had to go and change one of the participating Linux OS.



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