[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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