topic Re: printing .pdf in Operating System - HP-UX

printing .pdf

carl_46 — Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:34:48 GMT

Has anyone successfully printed .pdf files on an hp5000f100 printer? If so, what printer interface did you use or what settings did you change on the printer itself?

regards

Re: printing .pdf

Rick Garland — Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:43:56 GMT

The pdf files are AcroBat files typically Can print from withing AcroBat. Make sure the printer is defined and configured.

Re: printing .pdf

Anthony Goonetilleke — Tue, 01 Aug 2000 22:43:42 GMT

You can get a HPUX version of acrobat from here

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html

Re: printing .pdf

carl_46 — Tue, 01 Aug 2000 22:50:39 GMT

I'm sorry I guess I wasn't very clear. The printer is configured and cant print regular flat files. When I print pdf files they show up as a garbage, basically lines of random characters.

regards

Re: printing .pdf

Brian M. Fisher — Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:12:15 GMT

I believe the printing of pdf files through AcroRead of HP-UX requires a PostScript compatible printer.

Brian
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Re: printing .pdf

Stefan Stechemesser — Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:51:16 GMT

It is right, acroread prints as postscript, and if you do not have a postscript printer, you can use ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
to print both postscript and pdf-documents.
A list of ghostscript compatible printers can be obtained from:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html
Ghostscript is available for nearly all OS !