Hi: Suse 9.1 When I print from Acroread, I get these errors: kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found for text/plain This error appears in a dialog titled "Acrobat Reader" and has the Motif look, not KDE, so it appears to be generated by the reader, not kprinter. It doesn't happen if I print to a .ps file, and it happens with a multitude of drivers chosen for the HP5000 printer. My print command in acroread is just "kprinter" Thanks. -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
Christopher, On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:47, Christopher Carlen wrote:
Hi:
Suse 9.1
When I print from Acroread, I get these errors:
kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found for text/plain
This error appears in a dialog titled "Acrobat Reader" and has the Motif look, not KDE, so it appears to be generated by the reader, not kprinter.
It doesn't happen if I print to a .ps file, and it happens with a multitude of drivers chosen for the HP5000 printer.
My print command in acroread is just "kprinter"
Odd. Until I read this, I'd forgotten that I used to get that diagnostic every time I printed from Acrobat Reader. Since the printing always worked OK, I just ignored it. However, for some time now, I realize I haven't been seeing that diagnostic. I continue to apply SuSE-supplied security patches and I've been running the 9.1 supplementary KDE 3.3.x upgrades for as long as they've been available. The version of Acrobat Reader I'm running is 5.0.9 of May 21, 2004. Are you running this version, or an earlier one? As far as I can remember, the May 21 date could well be the last time I got that diagnostic--I know it's been quite a while since I recall seeing it.
Thanks.
-- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen
Randall Schulz
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Odd. Until I read this, I'd forgotten that I used to get that diagnostic every time I printed from Acrobat Reader. Since the printing always worked OK, I just ignored it. However, for some time now, I realize I haven't been seeing that diagnostic. I continue to apply SuSE-supplied security patches and I've been running the 9.1 supplementary KDE 3.3.x upgrades for as long as they've been available. The version of Acrobat Reader I'm running is 5.0.9 of May 21, 2004. Are you running this version, or an earlier one? As far as I can remember, the May 21 date could well be the last time I got that diagnostic--I know it's been quite a while since I recall seeing it. Randall Schulz
Interesting. I avoid all patches unless I really need them. I tend to believe that the probability of breaking things is greater than that of fixing things. Perhaps in this case you got lucky. The problem is an annoyance, since it does actually print. Thanks for the reply. Good day! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 03:47 pm, Christopher Carlen wrote:
Hi:
Suse 9.1
When I print from Acroread, I get these errors:
kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found for text/plain
This error appears in a dialog titled "Acrobat Reader" and has the Motif look, not KDE, so it appears to be generated by the reader, not kprinter.
It doesn't happen if I print to a .ps file, and it happens with a multitude of drivers chosen for the HP5000 printer.
My print command in acroread is just "kprinter"
Thanks.
Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov =============
Chris, Don't know if this will affect your printing or not, but I recently found that if you were trying to print more than one page from acrobat, it would fail. When you select to print and get the print window, go in and change the settings from Postscript level 2 to level 3. See if that gives you better luck in printing. That is one of the reasons I began using kpdf to view and print pdf files, overall it seems to render better for things, except for transparency pics and prints better to your selected printer. regards, Lee
BandiPat wrote:
Chris, Don't know if this will affect your printing or not, but I recently found that if you were trying to print more than one page from acrobat, it would fail. When you select to print and get the print window, go in and change the settings from Postscript level 2 to level 3. See if that gives you better luck in printing. That is one of the reasons I began using kpdf to view and print pdf files, overall it seems to render better for things, except for transparency pics and prints better to your selected printer.
regards, Lee
I haven't had a problem with multi-pages, just the annoying error. It does print however, so it is mainly an annoyance. I tried kpdf on this document: http://www.innovative-dsp.com/support/datasheets/sbc6713e.pdf Unfortunately it makes a mess of it, at least on S9.1. Thanks for the input. Good day! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 06:03 pm, Christopher Carlen wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
Chris, Don't know if this will affect your printing or not, but I recently found that if you were trying to print more than one page from acrobat, it would fail. When you select to print and get the print window, go in and change the settings from Postscript level 2 to level 3. See if that gives you better luck in printing. That is one of the reasons I began using kpdf to view and print pdf files, overall it seems to render better for things, except for transparency pics and prints better to your selected printer.
regards, Lee
I haven't had a problem with multi-pages, just the annoying error. It does print however, so it is mainly an annoyance.
I tried kpdf on this document:
http://www.innovative-dsp.com/support/datasheets/sbc6713e.pdf
Unfortunately it makes a mess of it, at least on S9.1.
Thanks for the input.
Good day!
-- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov =============
Chris, I got the file to print nicely in both acrobat & kpdf. Acrobat turned out the better looking of the two, but there were no errors or problems in printing. I too am using 9.1, but have kept up with the updates on xpdf, which kpdf uses, and the KDE updates for kpdf, so maybe that's the difference. Sorry can't be of more help to you. Have you checked your printer settings and do you check the settings when kprinter dialog comes up? regards, Lee
On Tuesday, November 16, 2004 09:05 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Don't know if this will affect your printing or not, but I recently found that if you were trying to print more than one page from acrobat, it would fail.
If I use the default foomatic printer drivers, I get this error in 9.2. If I set up printers in YaST with the Cups+Gimp-Print drivers, the error goes away. YMMV. -- _______________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678
Hello, On Nov 16 12:47 Christopher Carlen wrote (shortened):
Suse 9.1 When I print from Acroread, I get these errors:
kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found for text/plain
This error appears in a dialog titled "Acrobat Reader" and has the Motif look, not KDE, so it appears to be generated by the reader, not kprinter.
Of course the popup is shown by acroread but simply read the message which is shown in the popup to know which component actually had produced the error message. Or do you think that kdialog --error 'error message' is actually a KDE error because the message is shown by a KDE program?
It doesn't happen if I print to a .ps file
And this PostScript file should print well when you submit it via command line to the printing system: lp -d <queue> file.ps
My print command in acroread is just "kprinter"
If the above "lp -d <queue> file.ps" prints then change the print command in acroread to "lp -d <queue>". If the above "lp -d <queue> file.ps" doesn't print then the PostScript output of acroread cannot be printed. This can happen when the PDF input of acroread is somewhat broken. In this case it may help to play around with the PostScript level and the other options in acroread's priniting dialog. Use /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat5/Reader/help/acrobat.pdf or /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat5/Reader/help/reader.pdf (big!) to test printing from acroread with a proper PDF. Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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