[cups.general] Cups and Adobe Acrobat

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 21 March 2005 09:27, julianpb at gmail.com wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have CUPS running on Mandrake 10.1 Offical (CUPS 1.1.21.0) and am
> using the CUPS Postscript driver on the server. The server is bound
> to an NT4 domain for authentication purposes and there are two
> printers connected to it, an HP Laserjet2300 and an Epson Aculaser
> C2000.
>
>Point and click works fine for XP clients with both drivers
> installing with no errors or messages.
>
>The problem is printing from Acrobat 7 which will print the whole
> doc if you say print all but will only print one page if you say
> e.g.  print pages between 7 - 10. If you print from Word, IE or any
> other program it works fine but Acrobat has this quirk. If you tell
> Acrobat to print to the CUPS printers as an image, it works but the
> file size being sent across the network is huge.
>
>Checking any of the failed print jobs in the CUPS admin interface
> shows the failed jobs as "aborted" while the prints from other
> programs are "completed".
>
>Now I'm guessing that Acrobat is sending a string in the file
> somewhere that is making CUPS abort the job but I'm beggered if I
> know where to start. I've been playing with the settings all
> morning but it makes no difference and have spent a while searching
> for answers.
>
>Any help very appreciated.
>
>Thanks and all the best,
>
>Jools

Jools, as with any new software that we've been told is still beta, I 
had to try it last night only to find there was no way to do duplex 
with it, so I went back to using ggv, which with a couple of gotchas, 
Just Works(TM).  I hadn't wasted any paper discovering the 1 page 
limit yet, thanks for that info.

In any event, this is a hair off-topic for the cups list, BUT...

The first gotcha is that you should not quit ggv before gs is done and 
exited, else its going to leave gs & its lpr company sitting around 
with no parent to report success to.  So you screw around killing the 
leftovers with htop or whatever.  Otherwise ggv cannot open a new 
window to run in according to the error message.

The second is that when doing a thing chapter by chapter, you can't 
just close the current file and go open the next, ggv will give 
barfing sounds.  You must quit, then restart it to print the next 
chapter of your Great American Novel.  Minor nit.

I've found stuff that ar7 can't handle already, and it doesn't do 
duplex.  I've only had one file ggv couldn't print in the last couple 
of years, but ar5.05 couldn't handle it either. xpdf did but it has 
other bits of uglyness.  Give ggv a shot, it may not be quite the 
eye-candy you want, but 99.44% of the time it Just Works(TM).  And it 
runs just fine in a KDE-3.3.0 environment here.

-- 
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