[TriLUG] SMB PDF printing - mixed results, examples to compare

[David McDowell]

I'm having some strange results with my SMB PDF prints and wanted to
share them for comments/suggestions.  I have 2 examples, one was
created by Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro on my XP workstation, and the other was
printed to the Linux based SMB PDF printer (on CentOS 4) from Word on
my XP workstation.  The driver associated with the SMB PDF printer on
my workstation is the "HP Business Inkjet 3000 PS" currently (which is
a fairly recent driver).  I have also tried a wide variety of other PS
drivers such as the Color LaserJet 8500 PS, HP LaserJet 4200 PS, and
HP LaserJet 4000 Series PS.  Although obviously some of these drivers
are not color and some are, they all produce the same problems in the
resulting PDF.  The Adobe one shows the page converted to PDF
correctly.  The SMB PDF one shows how that setup is not performing up
to par.  Is there something I may be missing that I haven't thought of
or are there some sucky limitations to ps2pdf and ghostscript stuff?

http://www.turnpike420.net/~dmcdowell/adobe.pdf

http://www.turnpike420.net/~dmcdowell/smb_pdf.pdf

thanks,
David