[CentOS] Can't print a pdf?

Thu May 13 18:03:57 UTC 2010
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Thu, 13 May 2010 10:35:27 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> 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....

I'm guessing the file contains some MS-Windows specific thingy (image
or embeded object), for which you don't have the whatever plugin to
deal with.  Photoshop Elements (for MS-Windows) appearently has whatever
plugin that can deal with this embeded thingy.

> 
> mhr
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