[cups.general] Need help printing PDFs

[Gerald Britton]

Thanks for the tip on acroread. I installed it and found that it does
a better job.  The only problem I have with it is that it does not
obey the landscape option.  No matter what I do, it prints portrait.

So. here's what I know:

cups/lp can't print all PDFs properly.  You need Acrobat Reader for that
Acrobat reader (on Linux) doesn't process all options properly.  You
need Windows for that!

On 9/25/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > Gerald Britton wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Distro is ubuntu 7.04
> >>Cups version is  1.2.8-0ubuntu8
> >
> >
> >>On 9/24/07, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>use the "file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops" command to find out
> >>>if it is just a wrapper script or a binary) ?
> >
> >
> > Hmmm?
> >
> >
> >>>I'm asking because some distros don't ship the original CUPS pdftops
> >>>filter, but have cobbled together their own wrapper script around
> >>>the XPDF utility with the same name, which regularly causes problems
> >>>similar to yours, due to its own bugs and misconfiguration....
> >
> >
>
> The "alternate pdftops filter" as published on the CUPS web site (see the
> links there) offers nearly all options the xpdf's pdftops utility
> known as job attributes. E.g. add "-o pdf-paper=letter"
> (without the quotes) as a command line option to the lp or lpr
> command to force printing on letter sized media. See the
> descriptional comments in the wrapper script for further details.
> BTW, the wrapper script permits the use of acroread (the free
> Adobe reader) as a further alternative - there are PDF files
> which can only be converted to usable PS by acroread.
>
> Helge
>
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