PDF weirdness

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:48:43 +1100 Andrew Greig <pushin.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

What kind of printer is it (make, model) and what printing software are
you using (version of CUPS, etc.)?  It probably *is* your printing
software, probably a font or color problem of some sort.

> 
> Andrew
> 
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