topic Re: print .pdf file from linux box in Operating System - Linux

print .pdf file from linux box

avizen9 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:05:14 GMT

HI everyone,

i am using RHEL 4, recently need to print .pdf file with it, i am using a network printer model HP Laser Jet 9050, i can print word document (.doc) everything is good with it, but .pdf it does not support, print all junk charactor.

please advice on this what i should do, thanks

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

Dennis Handly — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:18:44 GMT

You could install Adobe Reader.

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

avizen9 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:31:47 GMT

reader already installed how to print? i am having many files which requier to print i cant open that all files in reader and print, i want to print through command line, let me know if you have any other solusion for this, thanks,

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:13:37 GMT

Do your PDFs contain non-english symbols?
May be you need to install some fonts.

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

avizen9 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:18:58 GMT

i dont think fonts are missing..... we need to install some filter which make printer undestand to print .pdf....but not sure what should be solusion

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

Heironimus — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:42:16 GMT

Does your "all junk" output start with something like "%PDF-1.3"? If so, CUPS isn't recognizing it and is trying to print it as flat text. I think it is possible to get CUPS to handle PDF directly, but it's probably easier to use Acrobat Reader to convert to Postscript ("acroread -help" for command-line usage) and then print.

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

Dennis Handly — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:41:59 GMT

>Heironimus: "acroread -help" for command-line usage

From this doc:
http://update.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/5.x/enu/reader.pdf
Printing PDF documents from the command line (UNIX)
... you can print PDF files from the command line. To print the file sample.pdf to the default printer, type the following:
cat sample.pdf | acroread -toPostScript | lp

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

avizen9 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:30:05 GMT

hi , i tried with acroread, i converted .pdf into postscript and then i had tried to print but it also doest work for me. ;(

i had used below command.
acroread toPostScript a.doc
lpr -P hplaserjet a.ps

its printing one line on top of page junk charactor.

any other help i can get here.

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

Dennis Handly — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:34:21 GMT

It seems to imply you might use:
acroread -toPostScript < a.pdf | lpr -P hplaserjet

Does lpr have a -opost option?

Re: print .pdf file from linux box

avizen9 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:53:15 GMT

this issue has resolved
i had put my printer on hp drivers which already in RHEL also changed printer spool, it work fine.