Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: 1. Are you sure that it is a .pdf file? run file on it. Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf. 4. If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to print from the viewer? It won't be printed either! With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally. Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de writes: please first try $ pdftk your-funny.pdf output trytofix.pdf $ pdftk fattura-cellulare.pdf output trytofix.pdf Error: Failed to open output file: trytofix.pdf No output created. $ pdftops fattura-cellulare.pdf Error: Couldn't open PostScript file 'fattura-cellulare.ps' This seems to suggest that the file is `ill'. But then, why is it normally printed with MS Windows Adobe Reader? Thanks to all Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: 1.Are you sure that it is a .pdf file? run file on it. Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf. 2.Did she put that file there? Yes, she did. 4.If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to print from the viewer? It won't be printed either! Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? What paper format does the file use? I've had printers refuse to print files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files). If the paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size, even though I don't remember how. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: 1. Are you sure that it is a .pdf file? run file on it. Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf. 2. Did she put that file there? Yes, she did. 4. If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to print from the viewer? It won't be printed either! Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca writes: What paper format does the file use? I've had printers refuse to print files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files). If the paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size, even though I don't remember how. With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Norbert Zeh wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? Try $ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output testfix.pdf which will try to 'repair' any errors of the file. Another thing to try is to convert it to postscript and try to print that. $ pdftops in.pdf How was the pdf created (which program)? What (if any) messages do the above commands yield? What paper format does the file use? I've had printers refuse to print files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files). If the paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size, Or A4, if you don't happen to live in one of the rare countries that won't use ISO standards. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 18:16:10 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: 1. Are you sure that it is a .pdf file? run file on it. Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf. 2. Did she put that file there? Yes, she did. 4. If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to print from the viewer? It won't be printed either! Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca writes: What paper format does the file use? I've had printers refuse to print files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files). If the paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size, even though I don't remember how. With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally. Rodolfo In Acroread in Linux, when print is chosen, before clicking OK, is page scaling set to fit to printable area, and choose paper source by pdf page size unticked (unchecked)? If not, it might be worth trying to print with those two set like that. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: 1. Are you sure that it is a .pdf file? run file on it. Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf. 2. Did she put that file there? Yes, she did. 4. If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to print from the viewer? It won't be printed either! Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca writes: What paper format does the file use? I've had printers refuse to print files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files). If the paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size, even though I don't remember how. With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally. Rodolfo Well, you could try saving it as a PS file first, opening that PS file in a gv (or any other PS file viewer) and see if you get the right looking document. If yes, try printing from there. If no, then perhaps it is a font problem. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Try $ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output testfix.pdf Sorry: please first try $ pdftk your-funny.pdf output trytofix.pdf The burst option is to split it in single pages, in case there is only one problematic page. Then one should also use a placeholder for automatic numbering: $ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output trytofix%02d.pdf (assuming your pdf has less than 100 pages ;-) ) $ man pdftk should list all the different options. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? ISTR that PDF files can be locked against printing. Perhaps that's the case? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Jeff Chimene wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? ISTR that PDF files can be locked against printing. Perhaps that's the case? That illness can be fixed by unchecking kpdf's Obey DRM limitations option. 8-) ... as long as you don't require proprietary plugins to view the pdf... Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
