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Printing a PDF file

You can print PDF files on athena, by converting them to Postscript,
which the printers can understand.  The simplest way is to use
acroread's conversion facility:

 add acro
 acroread -toPostScript < filename.pdf | lpr

Due to a change in the latest version of Acrobat (7.0), if you are
remotely connected to Athena without X forwarding, you will need to
use the older version of Acrobat for command-line postscript
conversion:

 acroread -ver 5.0.10 -toPostScript < filename.pdf | lpr 

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