After clicking print and processing pages.. it just stops

[Peter Flynn]

On 03/10/2024 15:28, Wade Smart wrote:
> I can print a doc from the cl but I need to research how to do that from
> a certain page because I don't want to print this all again.

    pdftk <filename.pdf> cat 2-end - | lpr -P <printername>


> Document was created from Adobe - this same company creates these
> reports for me for the past year uses adobe.

Adobe make many products.

> I mostly use okular - sometimes LibreOffice when I need to make a change.
> Neither can print from pg 153 on.

The selection of pages is not usually a function of the application 
displaying the document, it's a function of the printer driver. If I 
open a large multipage document in okular and click Print, I get a 
dialog which includes page number selection.

That dialog is (I believe) common to all applications which handle 
printable documents, except GIMP and LibreOffice, which seem to do their 
own thing. LibreOffice in particular has a very weird and unhelpful 
print mechanism

> I needed that doc this morning so I got my wife's laptop and printed
> the rest from there. Printed faster - from the time you click print
> to the print start than on my computer. I have another larger doc to
> print tomorrow so I'm still working on this.
Is her system Windows or Mac? The drivers will likely be different from 
those available for Linux because they are usually more recent, even 
though all systems seem nowadays to use CUPS underneath.

In fact, if you can find the right .ppd file (printer driver) for your 
printer on a Mac or Windows system, you can use it to create a new entry 
in your CUPS, which *should* mean you get the same facilities and 
services as the system it came from.

Peter