Acrobat printing problems (solved)

pete051 · 2009-09-24 21:06:37

Hi Folk
I'm getting on well with Arch apart from one problem, I can not print from Acrobat reader, it accepts the command and does precisely nothing, the jobs are appearing in cups but not being printed, I can print from Open Office and test print from cups but no cooperation with acrobat, anyone have any ideas? thanks
Pete

Last edited by pete051 (2009-09-29 19:14:12)

kjon · 2009-09-25 00:31:30

I don't know what DE are you using. In my case, I use xfce and when acroread starts with his stupidity I just change the print command to 'xfprint'. That forces acroread to redirect the print job to xfce's printing frontend, and problem solved.

Now, if you're using kde, I guess there is something named 'kdeprint', 'kprint' or similar. For gnome, I've no idea.

I hope this helps.

p.s. Sometimes, cups takes his time to print. When its taking too long I purge cups' temp files and restart the daemon.

Last edited by kjon (2009-09-25 00:32:23)

bt · 2009-09-25 11:51:12

I had an identical problem. I simply removed acroread and installed the latest version.

pete051 · 2009-09-25 21:39:07

Hi Kjon
Using kde here can't see any way to alter the print command
lpr -P laser -o PageSize=A4 -o PageRegion=A4 -o InputSlot=Auto -o MediaType=OFF -o Altitude=LOW -o PowerSave=5 -o TonerDensity=3 -o EconoMode=0 -o JamRecovery=False -o ColorModel=Gray -o Resolution=600dpi -o Duplex=None
This seems to be imutable

pete051 · 2009-09-25 21:40:52

bt
I'm using 6.1.3 that seems to be the latest in AUR ?

kjon · 2009-09-25 23:30:26

kjon@kjon-nc10 ~  $ yaourt -Ss acroread
aur/acroread 9.1.3-1 (593)
    Adobe Reader is a PDF file viewer

bt · 2009-09-26 00:41:17

pete051 --

I think you meant 9.1.3. That's what I have. Sorry, have no other ideas

pete051 · 2009-09-29 19:13:39

kjon that fixed it thanks I built it from AUR that must have been the problem

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Acrobat printing problems (solved)

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