SUSE 9.1 Pro can't print from Acroread
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
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
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:36, Stan Glasoe wrote:
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.
Note that there is at least one bug relating to embedded font in the freetype2 package in 9.1, this could be due to that as well. You could try updating to the newer package in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/projects/m17n/9.1/i586/ and see what happens
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 2:46 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:36, Stan Glasoe wrote:
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.
Note that there is at least one bug relating to embedded font in the freetype2 package in 9.1, this could be due to that as well. You could try updating to the newer package in
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/projects/m17n/9.1/i586/
and see what happens
Was in the process of doing that when I saw your reply. That didn't change anything. I'll keep trying with both versions of my PDFs as the various pieces get updated. Would be nice if Adobe kept our Linux version of acroread more up to date. Thanks, Stan
I would recommend trying kpdf. Recently, I have had better luck with kpdf than with acroread. Osho On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:16 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
-- Osho
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 2:44 pm, Osho GG wrote:
I would recommend trying kpdf. Recently, I have had better luck with kpdf than with acroread.
Osho
I did try kpdf and the other PDF viewers on these PDFs. The print output is terrible. That's why I had to figure out what was going right/wrong with Acroread. Maybe I'll try to figure out the printing issues with kpdf, gpdf, xpdf and the others. I try putting the output through lpr and kprinter on all of my problem PDFs. So far Acroread is the best and most consistent quality for the printouts. The print output is the only reason I'm dealing with these so it has to be 'perfect'. Stan
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Anders Johansson
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Stan Glasoe