Stuart, you can ignore Till's comment, I was able to reproduce your problem.
The PDF you mentioned is "encrypted", which means that the author of the file does not want anyone to make changes and save it under a different filename. Acrobat reader tries to enforce this restriction technically. When producing the print job, it inserts PostScript snippets that allow viewing and printing, but disallow reencoding the document as PDF. Since Ubuntu is using a PDF-based printing pipeline, converting the generated PostScript back to PDF fails because of those snippets. One solution would be to petition Adobe to let acrobat reader output PDF instead of PostScript when printing (btw, this is what almost all other apps in Ubuntu do). I would suggest using Evince: it renders and prints this document perfectly, and it is free software. ** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/891317 Title: cups not printing some pdfs (report) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/891317/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs