Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
>>> `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right,
>>> and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation
>>> date, which is today wheras the other files are older.
>>>
>>> The thing looks mysterious to me.
>>>
>>> Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> writes:
>> 1. Are you sure that it is a .pdf file? run file on it.
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> Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf.
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>> 2. Did she put that file there?
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> Yes, she did.
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>> 4. If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to
>> print from the viewer?
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> It won't be printed either!
Norbert Zeh <nzeh@cs.dal.ca> writes:
> What paper format does the file use? I've had printers refuse to print
> files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files). If the
> paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size,
> even though I don't remember how.
With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally.
Rodolfo
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