Invisible PDFs

Matthew Gillen me at mattgillen.net
Tue Apr 4 10:27:23 EDT 2006


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Recently I've come across and problem where I have PDF documents that don't 
> print on Linux. One of these was the output from Turbo Tax (Mac). I ended 
> up printing them directly on Windows XP (ugh).
> 
> This morning, I went to print out a document using Adobe reader 7, and it 
> only printed the separator page. Here is a document that also does not 
> print using acroread.
> http://claws.sylpheed.org/manual/sylpheed-claws-manual.pdf
> I tried KPDF, and print preview crashes kpdf. 
> 
> KGhostview and GNOME PDF viewers do work on the documents in question.

Every once in a while I have a problem like that.  I'm usually able to work
around it by converting troublesome pdfs to postscript and vice-a-versa.  See
if pdf2ps gives you something that's printable.

Matt



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