Does RHEL support printing PDF files?

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Issue

We used the following lpadmin command to set up a print queue. Plain text and PostScript files print fine, but PDF (Portable Document Format) files fail to print.

lpadmin -p QPRT0002 -v lpd://QPRT0002/QPRT0002

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

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