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Sometimes when I try to print a pdf, the formatting comes out - weird. I really wish there was a better word for it! The letters are jumbled up with random spaces/ no spaces/ tabs/ on top of each other. Not all words or letters, some are perfectly legible for no apparent reason. Sometimes it is only the headings which appear funny, other times the whole document, other times only the headings are fine.

I at first thought it was the printer since it printed one document perfectly the first time and then "weird" the second time. I checked the drivers etc etc and all is fine.

I then noticed that documents already look funny in the print preview.

The only thing I've noticed is that all those that don't print properly seem to be done in latex. However I use latex as a rule and most print fine, some print fine sometimes and others never seem to print fine. However I haven't had any problems with non-latex documents.

It all seems fairly sporadic...

Using evince document viewer.

Help would be appreciated!

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Did you try another document viewer for printing? I sometimes have PDFs which don't print well in okular, but print okay in Adobe reader. – Paŭlo Ebermann Nov 7 '11 at 16:45
Could you please provide a photo of the corruption and also an example file getting corrupted prints? – N.N. Nov 7 '11 at 19:20
Hello, this question has no information and activity for a very long time. I am closing it for now. If by any reason you think this question is still viable or useful in anyways or that there is still a good chance it will be answered please flag it to a moderator or add a comment with the reasons why you want it open. Regards. – nitstorm Feb 25 '12 at 9:07

closed as too localized by jrg Feb 25 '12 at 11:48

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