[OS X TeX] PDF File won't print from Adobe Reader 8.0

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Wed Jan 17 22:09:58 EST 2007


I saw this on another list.

I think it has something to with the fonts not being recognised by  
reader. It was generally acknowledged as a bug in reader, but no one  
had a work around.

What if you produce the LaTeX output as dvi, then pdf it?

When printing your original file, can you tell the printer to print  
all postscript errors?

And, try printing to PDF.

Cheers
Alan


On 18/01/2007, at 3:55 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

>> On Jan 17, 2007, at 23:25, Alan Munn wrote:
>>
>>> Forgive me if this is slightly off topic.  I have a PDF file that  
>>> will print fine from Preview, Acrobat 6.0 and TeXShop, but won't  
>>> print from Adobe Reader 8.0.  This is on a Macbook Pro running  
>>> 10.4.8
>>>
>>> No error seems to be produced.  The printer queue GUI shows that  
>>> it has Finished, but nothing shows up.  Is there some better way  
>>> of diagnosing the problem?
>>
>> print to a postscript file from Adobe Reader, and see if that  
>> produces something.
>
> Adobe Reader won't let me do that. (It gives a message saying to  
> use Save As, but then only allows PDF saves...)
>
>>  Another option is to look in the console applications in the  
>> utilities folder to see if something happens there when you print  
>> this file from the terminal (like error messages).
>
> There are no error messages at all.
>
>>
>> Is there a particular reason this is a problem?
>
> Sure, first, I would like PDFs that are printable by others, and  
> many people use Acrobat Reader.  I would prefer that intuitively  
> reasonable things just work.  Also I tend to use Reader myself, and  
> would like documents to print as they should.
>
> Alan
>
>
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