Thanks! Your solution appears to solve my problem!
I agree as to the confusion caused by the CUPS "print to file' checkbox, and I was further confused because Evince suggested that the result was readable without telling me that I was reading a postscript file with a pdf extension! Is my confusion worthy of a new Bug report? On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Marcel Stimberg <marcelcod...@googlemail.com > wrote: > Thank you for your bug report. The file you provided is not a PDF file, but > a postscript file with a .pdf extension. Acroread can only display PDF > files, whereas evince is capable of displaying postscript and PDF files. > Did you check the "print to file" checkbox when using the cups printer? > This setting is quite confusing, because cups-pdf always prints to a file > (in a special PDF directory in your home directory), but checking this box > leads to saving the job to a file in the postscript format *before it is > send to the cups printer*. This is because the cups pdf printer is -- from > the point of view of openoffice -- just a normal printer. > I think in general, the use of cups-pdf is no longer recommended, > openoffice has an "Export to PDF" option in the menu that should work fine. > > Please feel free to reopen this bug if this does not solve your issue. > > ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685072 > > Title: > gMail thinks PDF file via CUPS from Open Office is damaged > thout -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685072 Title: gMail thinks PDF file via CUPS from Open Office is damaged -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
