cups print wont print 6 pg pdf
On SuSE 9.0 I want to print a 6pg pdf document. Using either Acrobat Reader or Ghostview it will print one page but if I try to print after the one page I can see the file go to the print log which indicates it is being processed then is simply goes away without printing. I can print pages and documents from Konqi, MozillaFirebird, Opera, & OpenOffice without fail. Is there some kind of timeout setting on cups that causes it to not print a large doc in pdf format when it comes from Acrobat or Ghostview? TIA Richard
The Monday 2004-01-12 at 12:21 -0600, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On SuSE 9.0 I want to print a 6pg pdf document. Using either Acrobat Reader
Any pdf file? This has happened to me on certain pdf files, which are in fact broken but do not seem to be so. The formatter stops at something it doesn't understand (like Japanese fonts). Print page 2 manually (if possible), then 3 to 2. Or view it with xpdf instead. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Monday 12 January 2004 08:25 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Any pdf file? This has happened to me on certain pdf files, which are in fact broken but do not seem to be so. The formatter stops at something it doesn't understand (like Japanese fonts). Print page 2 manually (if possible), then 3 to 2. Or view it with xpdf instead.
It appears to be any pdf file from the Acrobat reader. I have tried several diferent files from different sites with the same result. I fire up Acrobat reader and it tries to send the file to the printer. The page I was sending was some 950k big. It went through the gyrations of preparation for printing then simply disappears! I didled with cups removing and replacing the default printer then I used Ghostview on the same file and was able to print all 6 pages, then I tried to reprint the same pages and it too, when through the preparation process and the file went off into the ether. From then on I coulndt get Ghostview to print any pdf. BUT, I could print docs from all the other apps before and after the pdf problem. Any ideas? Regards, Richard
The Tuesday 2004-01-13 at 00:01 -0600, Richard Atcheson wrote:
It appears to be any pdf file from the Acrobat reader. I have tried several diferent files from different sites with the same result. I fire up Acrobat reader and it tries to send the file to the printer. The page I was sending was some 950k big. It went through the gyrations of preparation for printing then simply disappears! I didled with cups removing and replacing the default printer then I used Ghostview on the same file and was able to print all 6 pages, then I tried to reprint the same pages and it too, when through the preparation process and the file went off into the ether. From then on I coulndt get Ghostview to print any pdf. BUT, I could print docs from all the other apps before and after the pdf problem.
Any ideas?
Not many... I'll have to try myself. You could print to a file (file.ps), then view the file with gv, for checking, and finally print it. There is also a pdf2ps program that might do the conversion - if it is the conversion that fails, the problem is not cups. And of course, there is xpdf. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:17 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Not many... I'll have to try myself. You could print to a file (file.ps), then view the file with gv, for checking, and finally print it. There is also a pdf2ps program that might do the conversion - if it is the conversion that fails, the problem is not cups.
And of course, there is xpdf.
Boy did I ever screw up this request for help! My problem is on a system which still has suse 8.2 installed. This machine has 9.0 and it seems printing with acrobat and ghostview from this one is working fine. Maybe I need to take off a weekend and upgrade the other machines to 9.0. Sorry for the confusion. For those that responded, thanks. I would like to do without the upgrade simply cause the 8.2 machines are running in an office and work fine except for the pdf stuff. I'll be tryng some of the suggestions especially the conversion routines to get around the problem. Thanks again. RA
The Tuesday 2004-01-13 at 23:46 -0600, Richard Atcheson wrote:
Boy did I ever screw up this request for help! My problem is on a system which still has suse 8.2 installed.
I'm using 8.2, and I don't intend to upgrade. But I haven't tried to print any pdf file, so I don't know if I have the problem -- it would mean wasting paper and ink, so I need to find a pdf I want to print first ;-) 5 pages of postscript, converted from 40 pages of pdf, print fine. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 01:31 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I'm using 8.2, and I don't intend to upgrade. But I haven't tried to print any pdf file, so I don't know if I have the problem -- it would mean wasting paper and ink, so I need to find a pdf I want to print first ;-)
5 pages of postscript, converted from 40 pages of pdf, print fine.
You just convinced me Carlos. The machine is in an Optometrists office and their Newsletters from the State are now solely via the net and in pdf. Fortunately they are not real big or very often so I'm going to see about mechanizing the conversion to postscript. Thanks again. Richard
The Wednesday 2004-01-14 at 16:29 -0600, Richard Atcheson wrote:
I'm using 8.2, and I don't intend to upgrade. But I haven't tried to print any pdf file, so I don't know if I have the problem -- it would mean wasting paper and ink, so I need to find a pdf I want to print first ;-)
5 pages of postscript, converted from 40 pages of pdf, print fine.
You just convinced me Carlos. The machine is in an Optometrists office and their Newsletters from the State are now solely via the net and in pdf. Fortunately they are not real big or very often so I'm going to see about mechanizing the conversion to postscript.
I also get a news letter in pdf format - I convinced them to use pdf instead of 1 megabyte MS Word .doc files - and quite often I can not view them completely with acrobat, and I have to use xpdf instead. Any way, I still have to test something: if printing from pdf still works. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Monday 12 January 2004 19:21, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On SuSE 9.0 I want to print a 6pg pdf document. Using either Acrobat Reader or Ghostview it will print one page but if I try to print after the one page I can see the file go to the print log which indicates it is being processed then is simply goes away without printing.
I can print pages and documents from Konqi, MozillaFirebird, Opera, & OpenOffice without fail. Is there some kind of timeout setting on cups that causes it to not print a large doc in pdf format when it comes from Acrobat or Ghostview?
This contribution might of little or no help. I have the same (kind of) problem: I am able to print from all application apart from OpenOffice Writer. OpenOffice calc, Acorbat reader, Mozilla, Konqueror do not give any problems at all. Only from OpenOffice Writer I can print only one page. Cups shows that the job is still being processed, but the printer is convinced the job has been done properly. Trying to print page 2 or 3 only does not result in a printed page. I have no idea how to solve the problem, but it looks like a cups problem given the similarity in problems and the fact that the problem in my case started after downloading a cups security patch. I am using SuSE 8.2 pro. Regards Jan J
Hello, On Jan 12 12:21 Richard Atcheson wrote (shortened):
On SuSE 9.0 I want to print a 6pg pdf document. ... I can see the file go to the print log which indicates it is being processed then is simply goes away without printing.
In particular some PDF documents are often so weird that they cannot be processed by the printing system. I suppose you can print for example /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat5/Reader/help/reader.pdf but you cannot print your particular PDF. See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-application.html in particular item 2. and 3.
Is there some kind of timeout setting on cups that causes it to not print a large doc in pdf format when it comes from Acrobat or Ghostview?
No. Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX AG, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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