Greetings, David Masterson! > I created a PDF file with Org-Mode in Emacs and used "gv" and "lpr" to > try to output. I have a Dell A10 printer attached to my Acer PC. The > output looked like it was going to work in that the Dell popup that > shows that the printer is about to print something popped up. However, > it took a long time and eventually did nothing. I turned around and > printed the same file with Adobe Acrobat Reader and it printed fine, so > I guess the file is proper PDF. This is my first time attempting to do > a printout with "lpr" in Cygwin, so maybe I haven't configured something > appropriately or given lpr the proper arguments (I think it was given > just the filename).
> Anyone know what's wrong? If I understand you correctly, you've just tried to send PDF over to the printer through LPR? I'm afraid, it just not going to work, at all. LPR, in essence, is just a file transfer tool. It doesn't do any format conversion. Unless your printer natively understand PDF format (which I highly doubt), it would only output random ASCII garbage, or, as you've found out, nothing at best. (Nothing is actually the best possible output, trust me...) -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 28.06.2014, <04:24> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
