[cups] PDF printing postscript jibberish
Chris Coleman
c at chriscoleman.com
Wed Aug 27 12:51:44 PDT 2014
Unfortunately, the documents contain some personal information.
I took the 3 page document that was printing the jibberish and using pdftk
to split it into 3, 1 page documents. Pages 1 and pages 3 printed fine.
Page 2 still output the jibberish. Might the fonts have something to do
with it?
$ pdffonts original.pdf
name type encoding emb
sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- ---
--- --- ---------
HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 3 0
OCRA TrueType WinAnsi yes
no no 14 0
JUZZUS+New CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 24 0
Times-Bold Type 1 WinAnsi no
no no 25 0
Times-Roman Type 1 WinAnsi no
no no 26 0
Times-BoldItalic Type 1 WinAnsi no
no no 27 0
AAAAAA+Arial-Bold TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 37 0
AAAAAB+Arial TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 38 0
AAAAAC+Arial-Italic TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 39 0
AAAAAD+Times-New-Roman-Bold TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 40 0
AAAAAE+OCR_A-BT TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 41 0
ILVTLR+ArialMT-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 4 0
Free3of9Extended-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
no yes 19 0
$ pdffonts pg1.pdf
name type encoding emb
sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- ---
--- --- ---------
HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 5 0
OCRA TrueType WinAnsi yes
no no 11 0
Times-BoldItalic Type 1 WinAnsi no
no no 17 0
JUZZUS+New CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 19 0
Times-Roman Type 1 WinAnsi no
no no 18 0
Times-Bold Type 1 WinAnsi no
no no 24 0
$ pdffonts pg2.pdf
name type encoding emb
sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- ---
--- --- ---------
HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 5 0
AAAAAA+Arial-Bold TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 13 0
AAAAAE+OCR_A-BT TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 20 0
AAAAAD+Times-New-Roman-Bold TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 27 0
AAAAAC+Arial-Italic TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 34 0
AAAAAB+Arial TrueType WinAnsi yes
yes yes 41 0
$ pdffonts pg3.pdf
name type encoding emb
sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- ---
--- --- ---------
Free3of9Extended-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
no yes 5 0
ILVTLR+ArialMT-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 11 0
HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H CID TrueType Identity-H yes
yes yes 17 0
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