[Gllug] PDF wierdo

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Thu Dec 7 22:39:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:50:01PM +0000, 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,

Both displayed & printed out fine using Evince on Fedora Core 6, and a 
Canon ip6700d printer w/ CUPS.

Regards,
Dan.
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