Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
Norbert Zeh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
>>>> 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?
Try
$ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output testfix.pdf
which will try to 'repair' any errors of the file.
Another thing to try is to convert it to postscript and try to print that.
$ pdftops in.pdf
How was the pdf created (which program)? What (if any) messages do the
above commands yield?
> 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,
Or A4, if you don't happen to live in one of the rare countries that
won't use ISO standards.
Cheers,
Johannes
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