[cups] Difficulties with printing music score .pdfs

[Alan McConnell]

Assembled Wisdom!

I am the reasonably contented possessor of a Canon three in one
printer-scanner-copier,  imageCLASS MF4770n .  With help from
members here, I got my CUPS + lpadmin to work, and now I can
print fine, mostly.  But see below.   I got very good advice
from the SANE E-list and now I can scan quite well.

But!  I am still having problems with printing .pdfs bearing
music notation.  I am Attaching a one page .pdf of an orchestra
part to a Beethoven symphony.  It displays just fine with evince
and xpdf.  The 'file' command tells me that it is a
    PDF document, version 1.5 .
Yet when I run  'lp beeth-1symph-p1.pdf', I get some cramped
non-discernable scrawling at the top inch of my 8x11 sheet and
the rest is covered with deep dense Black!  hideous waste of
toner!

Is this CUPS' fault?  is it the Canon's fault?  I suspect that
since the page is slightly bigger than 8x11, the problem may
lie there?  But when I print large .jpgs, the image is shrunk
down to fit an 8x11 sheet quite appropriately.

I suspect that this List will -- automatically? -- cut off
the Attachment.  But perhaps someone has some ideas?  or maybe
someone will volunteer to accept the Attachment privately, and
can see what her/his Canon makes of it.

Many thanks in advance for anticipated help!

Alan

P.S. I run 'old-stable' Debian Wheezy.  I would need some convincing
to persuade me that this problem would go away if I moved to a
newer Debian release.

-- 
Alan McConnell :  http://globaltap.com/~alan/
      Memory says, "I did that."  Pride replies, "I could not have
      done that."  Eventually, Memory yields.(Friederich Nietzsche)