[26673] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.4.18: acroread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian L Valadez)
Thu Nov 3 00:48:51 2005
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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:48:02 -0500
From: Brian L Valadez <brianlee@mit.edu>
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System name: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.4.18 (with mkserv)
Display type: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 85)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: metacity
What were you trying to do?
Print using acroread -toPostScript
What's wrong:
Postscript generated with acroread -toPostScript truncates the
last page of the file. Postscript generated using the GUI's Print
Dialog does not.
For instance, printing to a file with
acroread -toPostScript < perrow_normal_accidents.pdf > /tmp/all
produces a file ending with:
athena% tail -2 /tmp/all
m_49[G@Bgps'[QtE35u*q<R!BA!"qW]4kHU'=K?P*AQrXC$s"N.,.<[C;ooYR"kkY
LDB'NRf#NI_JQF/q?EClathena%
However, printing the same PDF file to a file with the print
dialog, produces a file ending properly:
athena% tail -2 /tmp/allb
%%+ font Helvetica-BoldOblique
%%EOF
(Significant document structure is missing too, including a terminal
"showpage", etc.).
What should have happened:
acroread should produce the same (non-truncated!) postscript, no
matter whether it is run from the command line, or interactively.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Sample PDF file is in /mit/readable/brianlee/perrow_normal_accidents.pdf
Note that the same behavior is seen printing only the last page,
e.g. "current page" from the GUI versus
acroread -toPostScript -start 43 < perrow_normal_accidents.pdf > /tmp/l3
