Can't print a .pdf

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 15 August 2014 21:30:57 Clay Weber did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Friday, August 15, 2014 08:54:04 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> > 
> > Weird problem, I have a .pdf that  renders on screen ok, but
> > I can't print it.  Using acroread to view it, and send it to the
> > printer, it will munch along on the file (its north of 22 megabytes)
> > for about 20-25 minutes, eventually reporting the failure.
> > 
> > This file contains about 4 places in it where the page is, I assume,
> > intended to be cut down the middle of a double wide page,
> 
> presumably on 2
> 
> > facing pages with a binder ditch between them that does not show
> 
> on
> 
> > screen.
> > 
> > But its apparent that the filters in the 10.04.4 LTS version aren't
> > capable of doing the one double wide renderings I see on screen
> 
> into 2
> 
> > facing pages at the printer output.
> > 
> > Is this something that may have been fixed in the 14.04.1 LTS, or is
> > someone playing illegal tricks in the generation of a .pdf as a doc
> > file for a line of semi-conductor opto-devices Toshiba is trying to
> > sell us?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help in this.
> > 
> > Cheers all, Gene Heskett
> 
> What about Okular or the command lpr name-of-doc.pdf? Will it print
> from those? I have no idea what Adobe uses for printing, something
> built in or using the OS/system printing bits.

From the looks of the printing dialog, I'd say its using the normal system 
printer gui.
 
> Have  you looked at newer acroread from Adobe? Though since they
> dropped Linux support after version 9.x, you are likely hit and miss on
> being able to install it. Not sure if 14.04 will be any better in the
> acroreader department due to the lack of new Linux versions, but
> Okular has improved a bit in the past 4 years. Not up to Adobe
> reader's level, but better.
> 
> Hmm  looking at dates, it looks like 9.x is likely what you already
> have.

Yup. Precisely even.
 
> There may be some dolphin service menus that send pdfs directly to
> the printer that should still work on 10.04, if direct printing of the
> file works.

I had to install okular. It renders those double wide pages in the same 
manner as the old acroread.  I have issued the print command from its 
menu, but in about 1:45 since, the printer is still sleeping.  But another 
minute and its woke up. It will take a while as this printer is not a 
speed demon when doing duplex.  However, okular has sense enough to rotate 
the extra wide pages and print them landscape style.  Not ideal, but 
obviously buckets better than acroreads last best effort.

Thanks for the suggestion to try it, it is actually getting the job done!

I did install dolphin once 3 or 4 years ago.  Compared to mc, severely 
crippled, ditto for Krusader.  Both were eye candy with no real muscle in 
sight, so they got nuked before I developed any more bad habits as I have 
already collected quite a few of those in nearly 80 years. ;-)

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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