On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 18:16:06 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> For some strange reason lpr -P PDF will fail here with
> lpr: PDF: unknown printer
Theory:You have the lpr package installed. The failure message
indicates this.
Test: dpkg -l | grep lpr
Solution: apt-get install
Hey Brian thanks, your last message got me on the right track... :)
On 28/02/12 17:32, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 11:33:01 +, Brian wrote:
>
>> The PDF printer converts a file into a pdf document. But you have the
>> pdf so it's a litle unclear what you want to do here.
A pdf only wo
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:35:38 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 28/02/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>>> It prints ok to the hardware printer (well I tried a couple of pages
>>> as it's a pretty long document), so this doesn't seem the case. Just a
>>> document full of form fields which is now l
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 11:33:01 +, Brian wrote:
> The PDF printer converts a file into a pdf document. But you have the
> pdf so it's a litle unclear what you want to do here.
But if all you want is to process a file without using Acrobat you have
lp -d PDF
or
lpr -P PDF
The messag
On 28/02/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:12:10 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
Also, remember that there are some PDF files that you wont be able to
print from Acrobat Reader because the PDF file itself can have
restrictions or limitati
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:12:10 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> Also, remember that there are some PDF files that you wont be able to
>> print from Acrobat Reader because the PDF file itself can have
>> restrictions or limitations that Acrobat Reader has
On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance
of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came,
claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance
> of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came,
> claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with Adobe's
> Acrobat bloat... Afte
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 04:35:31 Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance
> of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came,
> claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with Adobe's
> Acrobat bloat... Afte
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 12:17:08 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 28/02/12 11:11, Brian wrote:
>>
>> Please post the exact command you used.
>>
> lpr -P PDF -o PageSize=A4 -o PageRegion=A4 -o Resolution=300dpi
>
> is the (un-editable) command displayed in window opened by clicking on
> Properties
On 28/02/12 11:11, Brian wrote:
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat
printer called, unsurprisingly, "PDF". But, when I try printing with
that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uninformative
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat
> printer called, unsurprisingly, "PDF". But, when I try printing with
> that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uninformative message
> showing lpr
I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance
of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came,
claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with Adobe's
Acrobat bloat... After trying almost any available PDF reader on linux I
reluctantly
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