David Fox replied to Jack Byers:
> > Uh, maybe I'm missing something, but
> > I can print pdf files from inside acroread in either of 2 ways:
> > -- directly from the print command under file menu in acroread
> Do you select any options or do the options really matter under
> print?
> > -- or create a postscript file inside acroread and then lpr > >
that
>
> > works for me, nothing to do with ghostscript as far as Iknow
> It might be specific to the file I was trying to print. I've got
some
> other pdf files here and as a test printed a few pages from them
and
> the printing works fine.
> ghostscript is invoked to translate the pdf or ps to the bitmapped
image
> for the target printer. If you do a 'ps' while you're printing from
> acroread, you'll see ghostscript running.
David,
I don't do anything re options when printing from the file menu.
I just tried doing your ps-while-acroread_printing suggestion
and I see _no_ evidence of ghostscript.
[byers@byers dholubjava]$ ps
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
315 1 S 0:00 /bin/login -- byers
344 1 S 0:00 -bash
355 1 S 0:00 sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
356 1 S 0:00 xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc --
364 1 S 0:46 fvwm95-2 -f FvwmM4 -debug
/etc/X11/TheNextLevel/.fvwm2rc.m4
529 1 S 0:08 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/FvwmTaskBar 7 4
/tmp/fvwmrca003
530 1 S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/FvwmButtons 9 4
/tmp/fvwmrca003
534 1 S N 0:00 xload -nolabel -geometry 32x20 -bg grey60 -update 5
535 1 S 0:03 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/FvwmPager 11 4
/tmp/fvwmrca0036
536 p0 S 0:00 bash
537 p1 S 0:00 bash
574 p1 S 0:00 bash /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape -v 3.04
593 p1 S 26:30 /usr/lib/X11/netscape/3.04/netscape
730 p2 S 0:00 bash
736 p3 S 0:04 bash
2318 p3 S 0:02 /usr/local/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread
/usr/loc
2356 p3 R 0:00 ps
19025 p2 S 0:09 emacs rhm98-360
22463 p0 S 0:00 tail -f /var/log/messages
30511 p4 S 0:00 bash
31087 p3 S 0:58 emacs usecase.tex
[byers@byers dholubjava]$
I ran this several times after hitting print inside acroread
until printing was done, and always the same,
no ghostscript seen under 'ps'
Jack
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