Blank output from PDF

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Kurt Pfeifle <kpfeifle at danka.de> wrote (Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:49):

> Antony Gelberg <antony at antgel.co.uk> wrote (Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:25):
> 
>> Hi all,

Antony, you didn't respond to various questions (direct and indirect
ones), which makes it very hard to help you more...

>> When we try to print
>> http://www.companybarclaycard.co.uk/forms/Charge_Cardholder_App.pdf,
> 
> This is a PDF version 1.5, made by "Creo Normalizer JTP", BTW...
> 
>> there is no output.
> 
> What kind of printer was that?

So?

> *How* do you print? Using some PDF viewer, and the print button of
> that program? 

Which viewer was this?

> (This would make that program try and convert the PDF 
> to PostScript first, which may fail....)
> 
> Or did you use the commandline "lp -d printername your.pdf"? This
> would make the CUPS "pdftops" filter convert the file...
> 
>> The printer whirrs as it wakes up from standby, but
>> prints nothing.  I have tried to debug this by running pdftops on the
>> file, but when I try to display the .ps, it comes up as a blank file in gs.
> 
> I tried "gv Charge_Cardholder_App.pdf" and it displayed OK (despite
> of some error messages coming up as well, which I dismissed). [BTW,
> gv does accept PDFs for display -- it internally converts them first
> to a PostScript file using Ghostscript firs.]
> 
> I then printed the PDF locally from the commandline to a PostScript
> printer:

Which printer do you use? 

Any other details which could be relevant to solve the problem (like
software versions, OS, etc.)?

Cheers,
Kurt