erratic printing from acroread

[Goffioul Michael]

It looks like acroread only generates the first 11 pages, such that
kprinter cannot do anything more than printing those pages :-)
If you print to a PS file from acroread, without using kprinter, do
you see all pages?

Michael.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maf. King [mailto:maf at chilwell.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:40
> To: For users and developers of KDEPrint,the KDE printing architecture
> Subject: Re: erratic printing from acroread
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Acrobat prints to kprinter (with optional "-c" )
> 
> I tested this with an 18 page pdf doc.
> 
> Printing to ps file - a file is generated, with 18 pages, but 
> only the first 
> 11 have content, no error message generated.  Same result 
> with or without 
> "-c" flag.  PS file is the same size, although diff does show some 
> differences between the files.
> 
> mostly like this:
> 7914c7914
> < /E56 exch /ColorSpace defineRes
> ---
> > /E74 exch /ColorSpace defineRes
> 8557c8557
> < /E57 exch /ColorSpace defineRes
> ---
> > /E75 exch /ColorSpace defineRes
> 
> 
> Printing to a real printer still causes acroread to display a 
> dialog box thus:
> 
> kprinter:WARNING:
> KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no
> filter found for text/plain
> 
>          | OK |
> 
> and only the first 11 pages actually print, regardless of the 
> "-c" flag.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> If you would like my test files off-list, just ask.
> 
> Cheers,
> Maf.
>