Comment 3 for bug 1236120

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Don Myers (donmyers) wrote :

Hi Till,

I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The physical printers on the network work fine. I have Ubuntu 13.10 on three machines. They all do the same thing. I will send the error log, printout, and the output from cups showuing the same file which did print properly in the printout attachment. I get no data in any pdfs from cups-pdf in any application, including Firefox, Thunderbird, GEdit, LO Writer, LO Calc. But there is one exception. Do you remember this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1066932
OpenJDK 7 and OpenJDK 8 do not work yet. Open JDK 6 does work yet in 13.10. From your comments in that bug report:
"Don, your captured print job data is a PostScript file without the images, so the "Getting the data which would go to the printer" step is not needed any more as the images already get lost by the desktop application. In this case it is the Java engine. To print you have to click a button supplied by the Java application, not the usual "File"/"Print" of the browser, which means that the Java app generates the output stream (the stream would also be PDF if it comes from the browser)." If I print using the print button supplied by the java application, in any of the three computers with 13.10, the output of cups-pdf is fine. But that is the only time I get any output other than a blank page.