[cups.general] Printing PDF skipping characters

Jeffrey Chandler jeffrey.chandler at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 04:05:47 PDT 2006


>>> Please post (an URL to) a sample PDF file so that I may have a look into
it.

Unfortunately, I cannot post the PDFs as they are grant proposals for a
government agency which I work for.  Is there any thing that I can look for
within the PDF?

Thanks,

Jeff




On 9/21/06, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
>
> Jeff wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using Cups 1.2.3 (with the pdftops filter from xpdf 3.0.1) to print
> PDF documents.  On a few of the documents which have come through, certain
> characters are missing.  It still leaves a space where the character should
> be, but some of the characters are missing.  For example, instead of saying
> "Research" it says "R      rch".  Most of the text where some characters are
> skipped is in bold, but this is not always the case as some regular text is
> skipped as well.
> >
> > If I open the pdf up in xpdf 3.0.1 and print the document from there,
> all of the text is displayed.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Please post (an URL to) a sample PDF file so that I may have a look into
> it.
>
> Helge
>
>
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