Increasingly frequent error "foomatic-rip failed"

Richard Rasker rasker at linetec.nl
Wed Sep 23 11:36:06 PDT 2009


...
> > Well, the second job indeed does not print on whatseover device: the PDF
> > file from which the PS job is generated sets rendering mode 7 to all text,
> > obviously, which means the text is converted to a huge path and used for
> > clipping. That results in too big a path for the implementation of this
> > rendering mode. Without changing the design of the PDF, I think there
> > is no hope to get it running.
>
> So this would mean that the PDF file is basically not printable? This is
> really ironic, since it's an E-ticket, which absolutely *must* be printed to > get access to a concert ... Ah well, I'll print a screen shot of the barcode > ... and notify the organization who sent it to me (luckily the concert wasn't > tonight :-)

OK, at least I got it printed now, by first executing pdf2ps, and then printing the resulting .ps file. So that leaves only the Google Maps print job for now; if I stumble upon any more unprintable PDF files, I'll report it here.

Thanks once again so far, best regards,

Richard Rasker




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