On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:16 am, Stan Glasoe wrote:
I have lost the ability to print from acroread (5.08-202 installed and have tried 5.09-4.2). I have uninstalled acroread, rebooted, reinstalled, etc. Still no go. My problem is that the files I need to print, print best from acroread. All the other pdf printer programs don't do it as well; wrong color, jagged edges, mis-aligned, etc.
I have SUSE 9.1 Pro, KDE 3.3.1, cups 1.1.20-103 currently installed and have tried cups 1.1.20-108.8. Have tried normal updates of programs, rebooted in between, deleted all printers, installed one at a time with no reboots and reboots in between. I tried uninstalling cups entirely but that would require uninstalling 200+ programs that depend on it. I've tried many different files/pdfs. They all will print from kpdf, kword, xpdf, etc.
I have a Lexmark Optra S 1855 laser TCP/IP and an HP Deskjet 5650 USB connected to the system. Both have worked and do work for most printing that I do.
In acroread I have tried the standard /usr/bin/lpr setting and kprinter. Neither works. I see the Acrobat file to be printed arrive in /tmp and disappear when it thinks its printed.
In kprinter I can't find anything wrong. Have gone over most everything three times.
Any ideas?
Stan
Never mind. The fix was using font outlining in Mac OSX's Acrobat v6 for my PDF document. If the fonts were sent as part of the file, acroread for Linux 5.08/5.09 wouldn't print them because "ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1" would happen (from /var/log/cups/error_log in debug mode). No newer versions of Ghostscript are readily available via Red Carpet or Synaptic. After sending this SOS I remembered to try other 'known' good PDFs and they printed just fine. Narrowed it down to the document pretty quick. Duh. Stan