PDF weirdness

[Andrew Greig]

On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 09:12 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> 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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Hi Robert,

Thanks for your reply,

Printer is an HP PhotoSmart C5280 All-in-one
CUPS 1.5

For regular printing it works fine and the scanner works very well.

hplip 3.11.10-3.1.2 is is installed (3 packages)

Andrew Greig