Wierd Printing Problem

Hi Group,

Stumbling from one problem to the next... ;-)

I have created a PDF Form with iSED.

However, now I cannot print it. I have tried with Adobe PDF Reader, Acrobat, Browser etc to no avail.

I can print other docs ok but not this one.

If anyone could offer a pointer to what the problem might be, it would be appreciated.

Was hoping I could attach the document here but can't seem to be able to do that. Will send if anyone can help.


Cheers,
Mark Bailey

Hi sb,

In Adobe Reader, if I print to file it gives me the same error...

"The Document could not be printed"

Is that what you mean?

If not, how would you suggest I try and render to a bitmap?


Cheers,
Mark

Hi swb1,

I have sent you the file privately.

Could you please advise what tool you use to debug a pdf file?

Cheers.
Mark

Mark,

 

To clarify, (for anyone else reading this)  your document won’t print with Adobe Reader. It does, in fact, print through QuickPDF.

 

One of the key differences between the two is that QuickPDF uses GDI+ to render the document to a DIB then sends the DIB to the print queue. Adobe typically sends the print job as a postscript file. Which is why QuickPDF Print jobs are 10x the size of the same print job through Adobe.

 

That does not necessarily explain your problem because even when I set Adobe to “print as image” it still does not like your document.

 

The only thing I can suggest is to try removing elements from your document until it works. Then start adding things back in until it stops working. You may gain some clues about what is happening.

 

Regards,

Steve

I would not call it debugging a PDF,,, I do a number of things:

 

One thing I’ve done is to create a simple Delphi project that includes all of the QuickPDF source files. This makes it easy to step through  the code and see how QuickPDF handles various circumstances.

 

Another thing I do is decompressing the PDF and then view it with a good text editor (I use slick-edit). The non-stream elements of an uncompressed PDF are human readable as text although the specification is somewhat cryptic and frequently requires that I have the PDF specification handy as reference. I am relatively new to the PDF spec, however it is getting easier with practice.

 

sb

 

Good stuff chicks (as usual). I already had pdftk but I was unaware of pdfview It does make looking at the guts of a PDF a little less of an eye strain.

 

Thanks

sb

You must delete all old adobe software from computer and reinstall

Edited by occ1999 - 08 May 08 at 2:28PM