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Printing from a PDF and the text is all messed up?

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  • 06-03-2009 1:21pm
    #1
    NeVeR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭


    hi all,

    I'm in the office today and any printer i print from using a PDF the print is all messed up. I can print normal doc's and it's fine, Only PDF's are messed up.

    It's a network printer,

    The text comes out all over the place. The text makes no sence, It's all on top of each other and there are numbers and symbols in there,

    Any idea how i can fix this ?


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    #2
    art
    Registered Users Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭art


    Are you using Adobe reader for the PDFs? What version exactly? Have you tried opening with an alternate PDF viewer and printing (eg download foxit reader here: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php )


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    NeVeR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭NeVeR


    I downloaded the latest Adobe reader (ver 9)

    I'll try that software and see how i go,


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    NullZer0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭NullZer0


    If this is in an office and you are an end user I'd recommend contacting your IT dept.

    Other than that, configure Adobe reader to print as image

    adobe.jpg

    Should do the trick ;)


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,802 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    +1 for print as image
    ++1 for using foxit instead of acrobat bloatware in general

    if all else fails then get pdfcreator from sourcefourge and print to it and then print that pdf
    stupid but nothing to loose


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    4arc
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭4arc


    this because you used a type of font that the version of your pdf converter does not support. redo it using an older font type or maybe updating the program used to convert it to pdf and/or your reader version

    common fonts that cause this include the sans serif family


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    ressem
    Registered Users Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    If this issue is occurring across an office for all PDFs, then you might want to look at updating the print drivers presumably provided by the windows print server.

    I've seen this situation where any PDF printed on a particular brand of printer (Minolta PIxxxx in that case), regardless of content, would print garbage. All other docs would be fine.


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