Re: [SOLVED]: Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 18:16:06 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > For some strange reason lpr -P PDF will fail here with > lpr: PDF: unknown printer Theory:You have the lpr package installed. The failure message indicates this. Test: dpkg -l | grep lpr Solution: apt-get install

[SOLVED]: Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hey Brian thanks, your last message got me on the right track... :) On 28/02/12 17:32, Brian wrote: > On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 11:33:01 +, Brian wrote: > >> The PDF printer converts a file into a pdf document. But you have the >> pdf so it's a litle unclear what you want to do here. A pdf only wo

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:35:38 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 28/02/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> It prints ok to the hardware printer (well I tried a couple of pages >>> as it's a pretty long document), so this doesn't seem the case. Just a >>> document full of form fields which is now l

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 11:33:01 +, Brian wrote: > The PDF printer converts a file into a pdf document. But you have the > pdf so it's a litle unclear what you want to do here. But if all you want is to process a file without using Acrobat you have lp -d PDF or lpr -P PDF The messag

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:12:10 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote: (...) Also, remember that there are some PDF files that you wont be able to print from Acrobat Reader because the PDF file itself can have restrictions or limitati

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:12:10 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Also, remember that there are some PDF files that you wont be able to >> print from Acrobat Reader because the PDF file itself can have >> restrictions or limitations that Acrobat Reader has

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 15:56, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came, claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance > of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came, > claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with Adobe's > Acrobat bloat... Afte

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 04:35:31 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance > of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came, > claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with Adobe's > Acrobat bloat... Afte

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 12:17:08 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 28/02/12 11:11, Brian wrote: >> >> Please post the exact command you used. >> > lpr -P PDF -o PageSize=A4 -o PageRegion=A4 -o Resolution=300dpi > > is the (un-editable) command displayed in window opened by clicking on > Properties

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/02/12 11:11, Brian wrote: On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat printer called, unsurprisingly, "PDF". But, when I try printing with that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uninformative

Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader

2012-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat > printer called, unsurprisingly, "PDF". But, when I try printing with > that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uninformative message > showing lpr