No text from PDFs printed on Pandaboard

I don’t think I’ve ever needed to print PDF’s from a Panda before but following a report of a problem I found:
When printing PDFs on Pandaboard with RO 5.21 (21.04.2014) bit map graphics print but no text!
We’ve tried both PCL and Postscript2.
Also tried !PDF & !PDFtest.
Files used various sources including a data sheet from Samsung and !PrintPDF created.

Anyone else seen this problem?

Yes. (not!)seen it for some files using my ARMiniX.

Happened a couple of times during the last year or so when I tried to print out courier return labels, etc, emailed to me as pdfs.

Jim

Have you tried Gview?

That’s supposed to be better at processing pdfs

I have seen this problem, on Iyonix, RPCEmu and Pi, and I think it’s to do with !PDF’s memory handling, when other memory-hungry apps are in use at the same time. ISTR, SPrinter [http://www.davidpilling.net/riscos.html] can be useful for checking output before printing – if the created sprite image is without text, so will be the printed output. The only recourse I found was generally to reboot and attempt to print the PDF before launching any other app.

My memory’s unreliable. But I think I’ve tried gview and in some cases it worked, but in others it also messed up. However in some cases I may be muddling that with the text appearing but looking very poor.

Alas, I don’t think I’ve kept any of the offending pdfs to check.

Jim