Printing PDF with 2D barcode

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Mon Jun 28 10:10:44 PDT 2010


Elly K wrote:

> Michael, I'm sorry to sound like this, but I'm new to CUPS and your
> response went over my head a bit :-(
> 
> I googled from Xpdf/poppler and it looks like some PDF creating software.
> We create our PDF templates here using Acrobat 9 and populate them using
> iText. The output flattened out PDF looks and prints good from Adobe.
> 
> I searched for 'Adobe wrapper' at http://www.cups.org/links.php and got a
> couple of hits, but I don't know what to do next.
> 
> If you don't mind, could you help me a bit please - if I need to download
> and install a fixpack or something like that?  Thanks again for your
> response.
> 
>> It is probably an Xpdf/poppler bug.  I seem to remember a wrapper around
>> = Adobe Reader being posted to the links page you could try:
>>
>>     http://www.cups.org/links.php
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Elly K wrote:
>>
>> > Hello list, I have various PDF's with text, images and barcodes (3 of =
>> 9, 128, PDF417(2d barcode)) etc.
>> >=20
>> > They all print fine except the one with the 2D PDF417 barcode. If I =
>> open the PDF with the 2d barcode in Adobe Reader and print it manually, =
>> it prints fine, but printing through CUPS messes it up.
>> >=20
>> > I would appreciate any pointers/input.  Thanks!
>> >=20
>> > Environment: SuSE 10.3, CUPS 1.4.3 with HP and Lexmark Printers
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>> ________________________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>>
>>
>>
>>

Please post (an URL to) a sample PDF with the damn 2D-barcode.

Helge





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