* On 2026 19 Feb 14:57 -0600, Deri wrote: > On Thursday, 19 February 2026 18:50:00 GMT Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Processing the dodgy PDF was the trick. It also reduced the size from > > 200k to about 11k. At least this is a work-around for the time being. > > Thanks for that, Deri! > > > > - Nate > > I suspect, given that reducing the pdf size with ps2pdf made the pdf > "printable", the problem was insufficient memory on the printer for the whole > font to be embedded. Particularly as the "dodgy" pdf viewed with no problems > using acrobat in windows, which usually barfs if there is anything non- > conformant with the pdf.
I believe this printer has 512MB of RAM. I've not seen the printer report any errors. Just for completeness I've attached an image of the font it used instead. > The attached pdf has been produced using current groff (which includes the > font reduction subsetting). Please can you test with your printer. There is > still one difference, ps2pdf embeds the fonts as type 1c whereas gropdf > embeds > as type 1 (both are permitted by the pdf standard), so if this pdf still > fails > to print properly, it would indicate the printer only supports type 1c, which > would be naughty. It printed just fine. Thank you very much, Deri. Your help is immensely appreciated. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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