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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
