[CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

Thu May 13 17:35:27 UTC 2010
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just had a strange occurrence.  I was printing out some PDFs and I
> pulled one down off the web (my wireless bill) and tried to print page
> 1.  My browser properly fired up AR9, but nothing printed.  I tried
> agian, still nothing.  I saved the file, opened it with the Document
> Viewer and it can't print the file either.  I tried opening it with
> GIMP, and it gets this error:
>
> Opening '/home/mhr/Documents/pdfs/vzwA0418.pdf' failed: Plug-in could
> not open image
>
> I couldn't find any related data in the logs (spooler logs are all
> empty, nothing in dmesg).  I tried disabling and enabling the printer,
> then turning it off and on to no effect (which is not too surprising).
>

Follow-up:

I opened up my WXP VM and ran Photoshop Elements to open the file (no
errors), created a new PDF of page 1 and it prints just fine....

mhr