Invisible PDFs

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 10:27 am, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> 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.
In my case, this  morning, the two documents printed with GNOME PDF viewer. 
I assume that KGhostView is actually doing just that. 

I'd actually like to find the actual cause for a couple of reasons. The 
first being that I would prefer that acroread work, and the second is just 
to add to my knowledgebase for teaching my Linux course. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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