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ch4

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Registered: 2011-07-26

Posts: 3

PDF printing problem

Hi,
I've set up a completely new arch system on my laptop a few days ago and most stuff works. However, I don't seem to be able to print any latex generated pdf files generated by latex, I just get lots of rubbish out of my printer. Oddly, most other documents, eg pictures or pdf exports from libreoffice work just fine.
Anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thanks!

Edit: .ps files seem to be fine - so I can always print things by first running pdf2ps and then printing the ps. However, that's a truly annoying workaround, anyone got any ideas what's wrong in the first place?

Last edited by ch4 (2012-07-20 15:14:10)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: PDF printing problem

How are you trying to print them?  command line `lp` or some app, etc ...

Are you getting any error messages or warnings?

One diagnostic step would be to check the pdf minor version produced by libreoffice and latex.  Perhaps your printing method only works with certain pdf versions - if this is the case you can either figure out how to print properly so any version will work, or you can explicitly set the pdf version in your latex documents.

edit: `file your.pdf` will tell you the version number of the pdf.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-07-20 16:02:20)

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ch4

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Registered: 2011-07-26

Posts: 3

Re: PDF printing problem

I've tried lp/lpr and pretty much all pdf viewers (epdf, xpdf, evince,...). The only thing that *does* work is acroread (which however keeps crashing for other reasons).

The pdf version number doesn't seem to affect it as far as I can tell.