I am able to print from all other application, at least those which I have tried, but I can not print any .pdf files from acroread, the Adobe Acrobat Reader. I can print the same files using ggv, Gnome Ghostview - so the file is not the problem here. The .pdf file was generated by pdflatex. My setup: Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 930C app-text/ghostscript-7.05.6-r3 net-print/cups-1.1.19-r1 net-print/hpijs-1.4.1 app-text/ggv-2.0.1 app-text/acroread-5.07 app-text/tetex-1.0.7-r12 I will attach the appropiate lines from /var/log/cups/error_log (LogLevel "debug") below.
Created attachment 16438 [details] /var/log/cups/error_log
hm, no idea, you could try acroread 5.0.8 (currently ~x86)
I just tried acroread 5.0.8 - same result.
which printcommand are you using in acroread?
/usr/bin/lpr
i cannot reproduce this, so try to revdep-rebuild, remerge cups and ghostscript
same bug here .. i tried to fix it .. seems to me like acroread produces invalid PS ... don't ask me why .. (if u print to file it won't work ..) just use (g)gv something.pdf and print it there or just do lpr 'filename.pdf' if u want to print the whole thing
I already tried re-merging cups and ghostscript - same result. I agree with Thomas Raschbacher - it seems as if acroread is producing invalid postscript. Never happened to me on any other system...
so how can we fix a acroread bug?
please try the new gs 7.07
I just tried with app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r1 - printing from acroread still doesn't work. I've tried printing the exact same files from a Red Hat 9 installation also with cups... works there.
what's the gs version of redhat 9?
7.05
can you please attach the file?
Created attachment 22960 [details] PS file generated by acroread Ghostscript fails to view this file.
I believe this is an upstream problem with acroread-5.0.8 (the only version currently in portage). Acroread is not generating valid postscript. Neither ghostscript nor ghostview can handle the output. It doesn't matter whether printing directly (cups and ghostscript) or printing to a file and viewing with ghostscript. Nor does it matter whether PS Level 1/2/3 are selected. I get similar behavior on SUSE 9.0. The same site is printable on the version of acroread offered with WinXP Professional. Ghostview produces the following error from the attached PS file: Error: /invalidfont in -dict- Operand stack: EOAIEN+Wingdings-Regular-Identity-H --dict:7/10(G)-- Font EOAIEN+Wingdings-Regular-Identity-H --dict:7/10(G)-- EOAIEN+Wingdings-Regular-Identity-H Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 3 8 %oparray_pop 3 8 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 7 9 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 7 9 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1049/1417(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:74/200(L)-- --dict:36/89(L)-- --dict:79/160(ro)(L)-- --dict:63/78(ro)(L)-- --dict:8/25(L)-- --dict:27/35(ro)(L)-- --dict:17/17(ro)(G)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 My software levels: gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.0-r1 glibc-2.3.2-r3 gcc-3.2.3-r3 acroread-5.08 ghostscript-7.07.1-r1 ghostview-1.5-r1 cups-1.1.19-r1 foomatic-db-20031018 foomatic-filters-20031018 foomatic-20031018 foomatic-db-engine-20031018 To recreate, go to http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/before012.htm then click on Pre-application worksheet in PDF'. Try to print from acroread or print to file and view with ghostview.
can we do anything about that atm? (except downgrade acroread or wait for 5.09?)
downgrade is not an option since it was an security update, so we have to wait.
Workaround: disable "Optimize for Speed" option in the print dialog. Cured this problem for me.
I know this is a really old bug, but I'm getting this same problem now. Setting cupsd to log debugging info in error_log shows the same "renderer dieing" errors as logs posted previously in this bug. Printing with acroread *used* to work, a couple weeks ago, then some emerge world update made it stop working, but I don't know which. Possibly cups or one of the many xpdf security-related updates recently or ghostscript or hpijs, all update fairly recently. This is with an HP DeskJet 895C. The command acroread is using to print is kprinter. Unchecking Optimize for speed didn't fix it. Using lpr for the print command still failed. No PDF will print with acroread, but kghostview, xpdf, and kpdf all print the same documents just fine. My versions now: app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r8 net-print/cups-1.1.23-r1 net-print/hpijs-1.7.1 app-text/acroread-5.10 Hopefully acroread 7 will be much better...
