Posts tagged "printing"

• Cups PDF Filter Crashes

  2016/10/31 — alex — cups ghostscript pdf2ps pdftops poppler printing linux

  Problem: for some PDF files cups does not print the page, the web gui just tells "filter failed" and in the cups logfile you find [Job 528] PID 19521 (gs) crashed on signal 11! Discussion: cups on debian uses ghostscript as pdf renderer. The pdf renderer of ghostsciprt crashes on many files. You can test by simply r...

• Howto: Merge two PDF Files onto One Page

  2012/02/12 — alex — pdf pdftk printing linux

  Problem: If you want to add water marks onto a pdf document, you have to merge two pdf files into one pdf file. Solution: On Linux there is a tool called pdftk (PDF Toolkit), which can do this. pdftk <letter.pdf> background <background.pdf> output <letter-with-background.pdf>