erratic printing from acroread

Goffioul Michael goffioul at imec.be
Fri Jul 2 08:30:06 CEST 2004


In the Acroread printing options, try to add the flag "-c" to the
"kprinter" command (for KDE-3.2 an higher).

Michael.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas [mailto:andreas.russ at bioch.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 20:22
> To: kde-print at kde.org
> Subject: erratic printing from acroread
> 
> 
> Sorry to bother you with this, but I could not find a solution to my
> problem on the usual websites.
> I run Suse 9.1 on an AMD64 box with an old HP LaserJet 1100 on serial.
> Most of my printing works fine using the hpijs driver, even 
> from MS Word
> under CrossOverOffice.
> When I try to print from AcroRead, I get the error message
> 
> kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no 
> filter found
> for text/plain
> 
> followed by a print of sometimes one, sometimes 2 pages, but not
> more....
> Switching between CUPS and lpr did not seem to make a lot of 
> difference.
> I checked my file associations, my PDF file is known to the 
> system as a
> PDF, not text/plain. Adding --stdin to kprinter does not change
> anything.
> 
> This is way above the head of an amateur like me, and as this 
> is the one
> problem between me and weaning my work off the Win2K box I would very
> much appreciate if anyone could help. I have figured out how 
> to print my
> PDFs from the command line, but it is a matter of honour, isn't it ;-)
> 
> Best wishes
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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