Re: More acroread printing problems
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:41 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Hello, all. With the appreciate help from this list, we finally learned
> we needed to install Acrobat Reader version 9.3.2 from unstable into our
> Lenny systems in order for Acrobat to see our CUPS printers. However we
> are still having problems printing anything other than letter size jobs.
> It looks like acroread is creating an lpr command using the -o
> PageRegion and setting that option incorrectly. For example, in one
> case we saw -o PageSize=11x17 -p PageRegion=Letter which printed the
> 11x17 print job on letter sized paper. On a plotter we saw -o
> PageSize=24x36 -p PageRegion=A4 which resulted in the plotter rejecting
> the job as an invalid page size. Bypassing the Acroread print command
> by using a Custom printer and sending the job to KPrinter works so this
> seems to be a clear bug in how Acrobat is reading the PPD file and
> creating the print command.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there a workaround? If not,
> I suppose I'll need to figure out how one reports bugs for acroread to
> Adobe. Thanks - John
>
>
Oops! typing a little too fast. That's appreciated help and the
PageRegion is preceded by -o and not -p - John
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