[reportlab-users] PDFs generated by ReportLab not printing

[King Simon-NFHD78]

Robin Becker wrote:

> One thing you might try is to trip the RL pdf through 

> postscript. We do this 

> sometimes to see if the problem is caused by our code. 

> Typically we do it by 

> export to postscript from acrobat reader followed by convert 

> to pdf with 

> distiller. If your printer can do it print the postscript and 

> the final pdf. If 

> those are successful they may give information about what's 

> wrong with the RL 

> version.


Hi Robin,

I can't get Acrobat Reader 9 on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) to convert the 'Some
text in Arial Unicode MS' PDF to Postscript using "acroread
-toPostScript <my_pdf_file>" - it just displays the filename followed by
a colon, with no error message, and generates no postscript file. The
same command on a completely different PDF generated a PostScript file
as expected.

Do you have a copy of Acrobat Reader on Linux that you can check this
with?

Thanks,

Simon