Prints garbage

Hello Ben,

From observation, my understanding is that qpdfview sends New_User_Application.pdf to the printing system completely unaltered. The implication is that what you are observing is the responsibility of your printing system and not qpdfview (unless it lies in the options sent with the file). You can test this yourself using

https://wiki.debian.org/DissectingandDebuggingtheCUPSPrintingSystem#Capturing_the_File_Received_by_CUPS

In contrast, I think Adobe Acrobat converts a file to PostScript first and I know for sure that Atril converts your PDF to another PDF. So the comparison is not really all that useful.

Because you do not say what the printers are it is not possible to trace the filter conversions as described in the previous link.

Cheers,

Brian.

 > Because you do not say what the printers are it is not
 > possible to trace the filter conversions as described
 > in the previous link.

However, it is possible to do a thing or two to sort out whether qpdfview and its Qt printing system is at fault.

 lp -d <print_queue> New_User_Application.pdf

sends the PDF to your printing system unchanged. If it prints correctly, you can be pretty sure the system and the PDF are ok. That leaves investigating the options which qpdf sends with the PDF. An error_log will tell you what they are. Then

 lp -d <print_queue> -o <option> New_User_Application.pdf

could be a fruitful approach. Lots of work; but without it we probably won't resolve this.

Cheers,

Brian.

Thanks for handling this brian_p! Marking as incomplete as we need further information, i.e. does using "lp" directly work and if not what options are passed by qpdfview.