printing to pdf prob

James p3nndrag0n at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 00:39:59 UTC 2011


Hi NoOp

> On 04/07/2011 08:10 PM, James wrote:
> > Hi NoOp
> > 
> >> On 04/07/2011 04:30 PM, James wrote:
> >> > Hi Guys
> >> > 
> >> > Up til yesterday if I printed to a pdf file I got the entire 
contents
> >> > of what I was printing. After yesterdays updates which told me 
cups-
> > 
> > pdf was
> > 
> >> > deprecated and removed I think (reinstalled it via synaptic) I 
get
> > 
> > only
> > 
> >> > the first page and nothing more. I've tried looking at the 
settings
> > 
> > for
> > 
> >> > the pdf printer to no avail. This also happens with the print to 
file
> >> > option. Any ideas on how to correct this? btw, Ubuntu 10.04 
and
> > 
> > was
> > 
> >> > trying to print a web page.
> >> > 
> >> > James
> >> 
> >> Forgot to ask; what was updated yesterday?
> >> 
> >> Look in:
> >> /var/log/apt/history.log
> > 
> > Ok, it shows
> > 
> > Start-Date: 2011-04-07  09:55:30
> > Upgrade: libpostproc-extra-51 (0.5.1-1ubuntu1, 
0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1),
> > x11-xserver-utils (7.5+1ubuntu2, 7.5+1ubuntu2.1), libavcodec-
> > extra-52 (0.5.1-1ubuntu1, 0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1), libavutil-extra-49
> > (0.5.1-1ubuntu1, 0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1), skype (2.1.0.81-1ubuntu5,
> > 2.2.0.25-1lucid1), libavformat-extra-52 (0.5.1-1ubuntu1,
> > 0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1), ffmpeg (0.5.1-1ubuntu1, 0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1),
> > libswscale-extra-0 (0.5.1-1ubuntu1, 0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1), libavfilter0
> > (0.5.1-1ubuntu1, 0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1), libnss3-1d
> > (3.12.8-0ubuntu0.10.04.1, 3.12.9+ckbi-1.82-0ubuntu0.10.04.1),
> > libavdevice52 (0.5.1-1ubuntu1, 0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1)
> > End-Date: 2011-04-07  09:56:08
> > 
> > James
> 
> Nothing in there that I see would affect cups/pdf. All for the updates
> are related to ffmpeg (security) with the exception of
> x11-xserver-utils, libnss3,  & skype.
> 
> Perhaps you had updates previous that caused the problem but 
didn't
> notice? Again, what *exactly* is the application that you are doing 
the
> pdf printing from? And do you have any issues printing from other
> applications as well? You mention that it was a web page; were you
> printing from Firefox, Evince, Chromium, what? Have you tried with 
other
> browsers to see if they do the same?

Just came across the following which I think might be my prob

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1321424

will post result later after having a better read 1st

James




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