[cups.general] PDFs do not Print

russbucket russbucket at nwi.net
Sat Mar 3 07:23:33 PST 2007


adfas asd wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea of why printing a .pdf does
> not work, yet printing every other format does? (even
> .ps works)
> 
> 
> 
> --- adfas asd <chimera_god at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Debian Etch running Cups 1.2.7-4, and trying to
>> print
>> to a Gestetner DSc38u PS printer.  I've just
>> installed
>> this printer using the Cups server web interface, as
>> KControl kept giving me "Client Errors".  I used the
>> PS driver for this printer from linuxprinting.org.
>> 
>> I can print anything except .pdf files.  Any idea
>> why?
>>  
>> 
>> I CAN print jpg, text and ps files, but not pdf.
>> With
>> pdf Cups processes the file fine, and I see it all
>> going out the network, but the printer never wakes
>> up.
>>  This is true with large and small pdf's.
>> 
>> What is different about pdf's?  They are the most
>> important thing for me.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  
>>
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Michaels answer to you is probably  correct. I run openSUSE 10.2, CUPS
1.2.7-12 and ghostscript 8.15.3-24 and both Adobe Reader and KPDF print
fine.
-- 
Russ




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