[cups.general] Need help printing PDFs

[Helge Blischke]

Gerald Britton wrote:
> 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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>>
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> 
> 

Perhaps you post (an URL to) a sample PDF.
We print PDFs as indicated all the time and have not
trouble with them,

Helge


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