LPR output disappearing

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 07:40:00 GMT 2014



On 01/07/2014 06:52, David Masterson wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist@att.net> writes:
>
>> On 6/27/14, 9:35 PM, David Masterson wrote:
>>> Hmmm. Then why is LPR the default for printing from GV ?  GV was able
>>> to display the file fine
>
>> GV isn't like your printer.  Your printer may react as intended if you
>> were sending it Postscript because it may have the code inside to
>> render PS for its print engine, but if you simply direct a PDF file to
>> it, it's going to barf.
>
> What does Adobe Acrobat Reader under Windows?  As I mentioned, I can
> print the file using Acrobat under Windows without a problem.
>

Acrobat -> printer driver -> printer

Without the step in the middle, usually, garbage is expected;
only exception is when sending a Postscript file to a Postscript printer.

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