"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" <kleen...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the > Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit > through snail mail. > > In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine > for display purposes. But with my new printer (Brother DCP-L2640DW), > printing from Acrobat fails. The request gets to the printer, but > localhost:631 shows "Can't detect file type". So I've been happy > printing from qpdfview, until now. Now the dollar amounts I entered > on the forms look OK in qpdfview's display but print in a very thin > font. Any ideas how to fix this? > > Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers > none of the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't > try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window > manager. > > Thanks.
So choose a different font that works!? Or use evince. Or give up and read Bret's thoughtful contribution :)
