Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

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.


"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> writes:

> >> 1.	Are you sure that it is a .pdf file?  run file on it.
> >
> > Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf.

> >> 4.	If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to
> >> 	print from the viewer?
> >
> > It won't be printed either!



> With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally.



Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> please first try
>
> $ pdftk your-funny.pdf output trytofix.pdf




$ pdftk fattura-cellulare.pdf output trytofix.pdf
Error: Failed to open output file:
   trytofix.pdf
   No output created.


$ pdftops fattura-cellulare.pdf
Error: Couldn't open PostScript file 'fattura-cellulare.ps'


This seems to suggest that the file is `ill'.  But then, why is it normally
printed with MS Windows Adobe Reader?

Thanks to all
Rodolfo