(Slightly OT) Weird PDF Printing Problem

[Mark Phillips]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Usually when I've seen this type of problem is was due to using a driver
> that was passing along a PDF relatively unchanged to the printer and then
> the printer was gaging on something that it didn't understand, either
> certain font properties or images.
> If you have the option of using a different driver, say one from
> openprinting, gutenprint, or if you aren't already using it, the one from
> HPLIP which is usually the most preferable.
>

I am using the HPLIP driver, but I will try the cups driver and see what
happens. Thanks!

Mark

>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 02/11/2011 05:39 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> This problem may be Linux related.......A friend send me a pdf he made
>> on a ....shudder...Windows machine. It displays properly in my spiffy
>> Debian testing machine (all images are present), but when I print the
>> page on my Linux compatible HP printer, some of the images are missing.
>> I have never had this problem with other PDF documents sent to me, nor
>> with the pdf pages I create using open office, nor cups print to pdf. He
>> says the page prints with all the images in place on his printer.
>>
>> Any ideas on what may be going on would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
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