[cups.general] Need help printing PDFs

[Gerald Britton]

try this one:

http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1851_pdf/e096/e002379200.pdf

On 9/25/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>--
> >>Helge Blischke
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> >>
> >>H.Blischke at acm.org
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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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>
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