[Gllug] Re: PDF wierdo

[John G Walker]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 22:50:14 +0000 Christopher Currie <ccurrie at usa.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:50:01 +0000
>  John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Subject: [Gllug] PDF wierdo
> 
> > I downloaded the Marks and Spencer annual report, as a pdf file,
> > from
> > http://www2.marksandspencer.com/thecompany/investorrelations/annual_review0
> >6/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.
> 
> 
> Sorry not to have seen this before. No need to use Windoze, I hope.
> 
> I tried it with SuSE 10.1,  KDE 3.5.1 level"a", konqueror and HP LJ
> 1320 on pp. 1-2. Got 'Printing failure: cannot convert file to
> postScript' error msg.
> 
> Then saved it, as you did, and tried printing pp. 1-2 from Kpdf: no
> problem.
> 
> When downloaded it with Firefox 1.5 instead, and printed pdf from
> there without saving it as separate file, it worked fine. 
> 
> 
> I have often got variant effects between browsers with successive
> releases of SuSE Linux and KDE, when viewing pdfs online, or viewing
> locally saved versions of online pdfs.  I think sometimes Konqueror
> corrupts pdfs when saving them.
> 
> If there's a problem, then usually, one browser produces printable
> and viewable results, another produces rubbish. Have you tried Amtrak
> timetables? They're a good test - if the browser+Adobe Reader
> displays them sideways, you've a problem.
> 
> As you said, it implies a driver problem of some kind, but might
> there  also be a Konqueror rendering problem?
> 
> Christopher
> -----------------------------------------------
> Christopher Currie  ccurrie at usa.net
> 
> 

It's not a Konqueror problem, since the file printed via SuSE and via
Windows was precisely the same one. So the file is fine.

Interesting that you (off-list) said you had a problem with page 1.
That page was perfect when I printed it off,

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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