Hmmm. Then why is LPR the default for printing from GV ? GV was able to display the file fine
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 27, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > 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
