Acrobat printing woes

Pittsax

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Jul 27, 2005

• #1

Hope someone can help me. I've been having trouble printing PDFs, but only certain ones. Every so often I run across a PDF that, when I try to print it, I only get black boxes where the text should be. It's very frustrating, and I've probably wasted a lot of toner because of it.

BTW: I'm using Adobe 7 Standard and printing to an HP Laserjet 4100.

 

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chemdav

macrumors newbie

• Jul 27, 2005

• #2

Check out Apple Knowlegde base, I saw something there recently.

Until then try using Preview to open & Print

 

MarkCollette

macrumors 68000

• Jul 27, 2005

• #3

Can you post one of these PDFs here?

 

HiRez

macrumors 603

• Jul 27, 2005

• #4

Pittsax said:

Hope someone can help me. I've been having trouble printing PDFs, but only certain ones. Every so often I run across a PDF that, when I try to print it, I only get black boxes where the text should be. It's very frustrating, and I've probably wasted a lot of toner because of it.

BTW: I'm using Adobe 7 Standard and printing to an HP Laserjet 4100.

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What happens when you print them from Preview.app? I've had a few things that Preview handles well that Acrobat doesn't and vice-versa.

 

Pittsax

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Jul 28, 2005

• #5

HiRez said:

What happens when you print them from Preview.app? I've had a few things that Preview handles well that Acrobat doesn't and vice-versa.

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I actually haven't tried Preview (doh!). Will let you know how that goes.

I really can't post any of the troublemaking PDFs here. They're scientific articles that you need to have a subscription for to read.