PDF weirdness

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Steven Stern <
subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:

> On 10/28/2012 03:42 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:01:04 +1100 Andrew Greig <pushin.linux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 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)
> >
> > All I can say is that at the Wendell Free Library on a CentOS 5 system
> > with a HP all-in-one (OfficeJet) is that we have our own 'PDF
> > weirdness' (not related to Gnucash at all): printing random PDF's from
> > Adobe's PDF reader fails (the print job crashes). The same PDF prints
> > just fine using evince, xpdf, or being converted to Postscript by
> > Ghostscript.  Adobe's PDF reader can print just fine to an *older* HP
> > laser printer (with native Postscript).  It is not the PDF files, but
> > the software involved in converting it to Postscript (Adobe's Reader)
> > and/or converting the Postscript to HP Inkjet raster format (eg
> > Ghostscript & hplip / CUPS).
> >
> > I suspect you are seeing a simular sort of bug here.  It *might* be
> > related to something Gnucash is (not?) doing, possibly  related to
> > fonts, since the problem seems to be related to text. And might just be
> > a Ghostscript and/or hplip bug.
> >
> >>
> >> Andrew Greig
> >>
> >>
> >
> I'll second that. Printing to an HP 8500 from recent versions of Adobe
> Reader fails most of the time on Fedora 17, but evince works.  Also, if
> I open the PDF file with Chrome, I can print it.  I think it's some bad
> interaction between Adobe and CUPS.
>
> --
> -- Steve
>
>
Sometimes Adobe Reader fails to print on my network (which has a mixture of
Ubuntu and Macintosh systems) and many times it helps to click the
"Advanced" button on the Print dialog and turn on the option that says
"Print as Image."

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