[pdftex] Re: Problem with printing

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi all,

I have sent to Troy a list of the tests I ran, and I have isolated the
printing problem.  Since I did not tell him what the problem was, I will do
so now.

It appears that the number of saves (as in save/restore) allowed by the PS
spec was exceeded when printing the PDF file using the Macintosh print
drivers.  What I did to get around this was to export the PDF file to a PS
file (thus bypassing the print driver's inclusion of one [or more] extra
saves), and then I printed the file using the Macintosh print queue management
software.  No problems.

This was a PS error, not a problem with pdftex's PDF code.  xpdf's pdftops
handled the PDF file just fine.  I will look into why GS fails.  It might
be a bug in GS.

Tom

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Troy Goodson wrote:

> I've made the file available at
> http://www.csun.edu/~kg46825/troy/SOI_sim.pdf.gz
>
> I'll check-out xpdf's pdftops.
>
> At 5:43 PM -0400 7/23/01, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >Most likely printing problems will not go away with Acrobat Reader 5.0, for
> >myriad reasons related to fonts.
> >
> >We would need to see a problem file before we can make any assessment as to
> >why the file won't print.
> >
> >You might want tp try xpdf's pdftops tool to make an EPS file from your PDF
> >graphics/files and then try printing.  I am not sure if there is a Mac port
> >of xpdf.  I ought to ping Tom Kiffe on this.
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Troy Goodson wrote:
> >
> >>  I recently made a pdf with pdfLaTeX and some colleagues tried to
> >>  print it with Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05 on the Mac, which failed.  I
> >>  believe this is due to the problem described below.  I suspect that I
> >>  can ask them to upgrade to Acrobat Reader v5 and the problem will go
> >>  away, but is there a workaround on my end?
> >>
> >>  I thought I'd convert my embedded PDF graphics to EPS and use regular
> >>  LaTeX, but for some reason that's not working.  I run pdf2ps followed
> >>  by ps2epsi and I get "Error: /rangecheck in --.getbitsrect--"
> >>
> >>  Any other ideas on obtaining a PDF compatible with Reader v4.05 ?
> >>     --or-- on converting my PDF graphics to EPS?
> >>
> >>
> >>  localhost% pdflatex --version
> >>  pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.3.1) 3.14159-0.14h-released-20010417
> >>  kpathsea version 3.3.3.1
> >>  Copyright (C) 1999 Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka, and Jiri Zlatuska.
> >>  Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >>  There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
> >>  covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
> >>  the GNU General Public License.
> >>  For more information about these matters, see the files
> >>  named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
> >>  Primary author of pdfTeX: Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka, and Jiri Zlatuska.
> >>  Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.
> >>
> >>
> >>  At 8:39 AM +0100 12/2/98, Han The Thanh wrote:
> >>  >Hi,
> >>  >
> >>  >there is a problem with printing document containing included PDF
> >>  >pictures. This problem has been known, and in fact this is a bug of
> >>  >gv and Acrobat Reader (Acrobat Reader can display, but cannot
> >>  >print). Here is a part from discussion with the author of xpdf:
> >>  >
> >>  >>  | In PDF 1.0 and 1.1, all named resources used in the form must be
> >>  >>  | included in the  Resources dictionary of each Page object on which the
> >>  >>  | form appears, regardless of  whether or not they also appear in the
> >>  >>  | Resources dictionary of the form.
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  It goes on to say that in PDF 1.2, form resources can be independent of
> >>  >>  the page.
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  > However, having done some testing, it seems that when Form resources
> >>  >>  > are not included in Page resources, AcroReader displays it well
> >>  >>  > but printing fails. GS fails to display PDF as well as PS produced by
> >>  >>  > printing from AcroReader.
> >>  >>
> >>  >>  Hm, sounds like Adobe can't even keep up with their own standards :-)
> >>  >
> >>  >I am trying to work around this problem.
> >>  >
> >>  >Thanh
> >>
> >>
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