Printing PDFs

[Helge Blischke]

John Satlar wrote:

> I am having problems configuring our server to print pdf files. We are
> attempting to receive a pdf from our mainframe, and originally we could
> not even get the job into queue. Finally found article recommending to
> un-comment application/octet-stream in mime.convs and mime.types. Doing
> this we were able to get the job in queue. However, when we attempt to
> print this file it is not recognized as a pdf and only raw data is
> printed. What am I overlooking?
> 
> We are currently running SLES9 SP2 and CUPS 1.1.20-108.22

It might be that the PDFs are prepended with some junk just before
the "%PDF", which CUPS exspects at the very beginning of the file.

Perhasp you could post (an URL to) a sample PDF?

Helge