[Gllug] Re: PDF wierdo

[Christopher Currie]

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
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Christopher Currie  ccurrie at usa.net


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