Re: can't print from acroread

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

Thanks for the clarification.

Bob

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:16:17AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:34:45PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > I had a similar problem with only certain .pdf documents.  The error
> > light on my Lexmark Optra E312 would flash when lpr was sending data to
> > the printer and nothing was printed although there were no error
> > messages.  I used pdftops to convert the file to .ps and noticed that
> > the first line said "%!PS-Adobe-3.0".  My printer only handles PS
> 
> just a short note:
> contrary to what one might think, the 3.0 in "%!PS-Adobe-3.0" does not
> refer to the PostScript language level. Instead it states that the
> PS document adheres to the Adobe DSC (document structuring conventions)
> version 3.0 (with versioning independent from the PS level). The DSC
> mainly specify the syntax and sematics of the "%%"-comments.
> 
> Erdmut
> 
> > level 2, so I believe this was the problem.  I think it had something
> > to do with the way the document was created and neither acroread nor
> > pdftops could convert to level 2 postscript, although I had selected
> > level 2 in the acroread print dialog box.
>