[Gllug] PDF wierdo

[salsaman]

John G Walker wrote:

>I downloaded the Marks and Spencer annual report, as a pdf file, from
>http://www2.marksandspencer.com/thecompany/investorrelations/annual_review06/index.shtml
>and opened it with kpdf. No problem. It looked fine, every page
>readable. But, when I printed it off, I got blank pages for everything
>except the front and back of the report.
>
>Same thing with kghostview and acrobat reader. All this using KDE under
>Suse 10.1.
>
>However, the exact same file printed okay using Acrobat Reader under
>Windows 98SE.
>
>I was using the same printer (a Magicolor 2300DL) in both cases. I
>suppose it might be a driver problem under SuSE, but I can't think what
>else it could be.
>
>Anyone prepared to give it a try and let me know what happens? You only
>have to print page 2 - if that works then you don't have my problem.
>And there's no problem reading it from the screen,
>
>  
>
Tried pdf2ps or pdftotext ?

Might work.

Alternately, you can email it to pdf2txt at adobe.com, and they will reply 
with an ASCII version :-)


Gabriel.

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