[Novalug] peculiar printing problem
Bonnie Dalzell
bdalzell@qis.net
Tue Dec 24 14:36:49 EST 2013
i have a brother printer and I am running Xubuntu based on Ubuntu 12.04
(precise).
The brother printer plugs into the mac airport. my computer plugs into our
DSL modem/router. so does the mac airport. the brother printer plugs into
the mac airport.
so my computer is getting to the brother printer via the connection to
the airport but the entire path is via cable not wireless.
I have some pdf formatted files generated by a program named PageStream
which started out as an Amiga program. The version I have is a linux
version.
mostly PageStream does not interact well with printers on linux but it
does save documents out in pdf format so I use PageStream, save them as
pdf and then print them from the linux pdf viewer called "Document Viewer"
in my menu.
Yesterday I tried to print out one of the stored documents and it did not
print and the printer information utility indicated that the printer was
off line.
So i turned it off and back on and tried printing the same document
again and no results.
We tried printing from my husband's mac and the mac could not find the
printer.
Well it was late and all the computers got turned off. The printer was
also turned off and back on.
So this morning I had to print a simple text file from gedit and it
printed fine.
Later on I tried to print the .pdf document and again the printer
vanished from the mind of the computer.
So a period of eliminating things occurred.
All the cables are ok, incidentally.
I did delete and reinstall the printer from the printer management
utility.
Just rebooting does not bring the printer back to the view of my computer,
it has to be a "turn off both machines and turn them back on" process.
text, rtf and open office versions of the offending document print out
fine.
putting the not-printable-from-xubuntu-computer pdf versions on a thumb
drive and then printing them from the OSX Macintosh works ok.
so it appears that I have some pdf documents that must contain a command
that turns off the connection to the printer under linux.
These are documents I generated locally with the linux version of
PageStream, not anything I downloaded.
I am of course going to correspond with the PageStream development
team about this but I wanted to ask if anyone else has encountered a
problem with a pdf file that seems to be able to disconnect the printer
electronically.
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