PDF weirdness

[Andrew Greig]

On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 09:44 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On 28 October 2012 09:35, Andrew Greig <pushin.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am running GC 2.4.11 under a Suse 12.1 64bit system.  The program runs
> > fine, and I have just done a run of Invoices as pdfs and attached and
> > sent them to my clients.  I needed to run an AR report for a couple of
> > delinquent customers.  Tried printing the reports directly, and the only
> > stuff that printed was the Table frames and the blue hyperlinks, no
> > black text was printed.  So I saved the 2 reports as PDFs and when I
> > opened them the tables were fully populated with black text and blue
> > hyperlinks (just as in the HTML format previously).  On printing one of
> > the PDFs from evince, and later from Okular, I had the same issue - only
> > the rulings for the table cells and the Blue hyperlinks were printed.
> 
> Can I just check what you are saying.  Gnucash has generated pdf files
> that look fine in evince and okular but do not print correctly?  Have
> you considered that it may be an issue with your printing rather than
> the pdf files?  Have you tried printing on a different PC and printer?
> 
> It might be useful to put the files through a pdf validator [1]
> 
> Colin
> 
> [1] http://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf/validate-pdfa-online.aspx  (I can't
> vouch for whether this is any good).


Hi Colin,

I ran the pdf validator on the pdf I created in the Print dialog.  It
returned that the pdf was pdf1.5  so it appears to be OK.

Thr reason that I do not suspect the printer is that the table cells
were all defined cleanly with black borders, and the only text that
printed was hypertext.  

I have never encountered anything like this before.

Andrew