[reportlab-users] PDFs generated by ReportLab not printing

[King Simon-NFHD78]

> -----Original Message-----

> From: reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com 

> [mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com] On Behalf Of 

> Andy Robinson

> Sent: 22 May 2009 10:48

> To: Support list for users of Reportlab software

> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] PDFs generated by ReportLab 

> not printing

> 

> However, none of them sound likely to cause the error with 'restore'

> or to cause printing to fail.   The preflight tools is correctly

> warning of some differences between our files and what

> Quark/Illustrator/InDesign normally produce.

>


I don't really understand why someone would be able to open a PDF file
in Acrobat Reader (for example), and yet be unable to print it. I'm
assuming that printers don't generally understand the PDF format
directly, and that Acrobat converts it to Postscript before sending it
to the printer driver. Is that too simplistic a view?

Simon