A problematic PDF file

[Tahir Hassan]

I installed xpdf and used pdftops and printed the file and it printed perfect :-)

However the "-paper match" option causes the same problem as before (that it prints it in portrait even though its a landscape pdf file thus cutting the right half of the page out) so just pdftops does fine.

Thank you very much!  You have awoken me from my nightmare.

I still have one question though:

How do I use this forum? The way I checked for whether I had a reply was to type "problematic" into the search box.

Do I need to use usenet or something?  (I am unfamiliar with all these old technologies).

Thanks again
-Tahir

> When using both the "alternate pdftops filter" and the "alternate pstops filter"
> (see the links at the CUPS site) it prints correctly.
>
> My guess is: as the PDF sets the media box for both pages to [842 596]
> (which is an A4 transverse page), this gets lost during CUPS's pdftops
> filter.
>
> Try to convert it to a PS file using xpdf's pdftops (do not forget
> to supply the option "-paper match" ) and print the resulting PostScript
> file. Is that OK?
>
> Helge
>
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> Helge Blischke
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>
> H.Blischke at acm.org