ppr-list-digest volume 2, number 25, message 2

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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 11:19:46 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: PDF from Acrobat 4.0

At 04:48 PM 02/03/2000 -0600, jkrainak wrote:
>I have a Macintosh with Acrobat 4.0 trying to print a pdf to my Tektronix
>600.  Here is the error that I recieve after PPR arrests the job

>This user has printed other documents successfully, but not from Acrobat.

It is hard to say.  I have not yet tried either LaserWriter 8.6 or Acrobat
Reader 4.0 for Macintosh.  However, there have been problems with Acroread
4.0 on other platforms.  If you can save a copy of the PostScript output
(perhaps by printing to disk) and send it to me, I can check for
campatibility problems.  I may have to updated the editps filter or do
something like that.

>Does the PPD have to be on the PPR spooler if the user has it setup in his
>local machine?  Also, I was able to print this PDF from Acrobat 3.0 on
>another macintosh.

You should generally use the same PPD file on both the client and the
spooler.  If you don't, some printer features, such as bin selection may
not work.  Of course, the file should have its line termination converted
to the correct format for text files on each platform.  Version 1.40 (beta
2 will be out soon) has a Perl script call ppd2macos which converts all of
the PPD files to Macintosh line termination and stores them in a separate
directory so you can share them with CAP or Netatalk.

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Everyone:  Please send me samples of files that won't print through PPR,
but should.  Just don't send anything confidential!



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