Crashing When Attempting to Print - Workaround for some

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Crashing When Attempting to Print - Workaround for some

I am running the latest Leopard and all of the Apple software as well. Tried to print from Pages and it shuts down. Saved the files as a PDF and opened in Preview, it shuts down. Adobe Acrobat shuts down. Any application that can open a PDF will crash on this Pages document. Opened in Graphic Converter and it prints fine. I don't work nor do I have any interest in Graphic Converter. Just letting people know that at least for me. GC was able to print a document that I spent a lot of time on and was due to my customer today and that NO OTHER program could print it. After seeing so many people with printing problems, I hope that a real solution will be found and not this work around.

Macs of every type and configuration, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Aug 24, 2009 10:13 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 24, 2009 12:00 PM in response to Zydeco's Cajun Restaurants

Were you using a specific font in the document that causes the problems? Can you save as a PostScript file and open in preview?

There must be crash reports located in your home folder at ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter or in /Library/Logs/Crashreporter. If so, what do those reports look like?

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Answer 2

Aug 24, 2009 6:03 PM in response to Zydeco's Cajun Restaurants

It opens in every program just fine. Its the printing that it chokes on except for GC. I wonder what that program does differently that the others can't handle. I was able to print it, so I'll just play with the file and see what turns up.

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Answer 3

Aug 24, 2009 6:07 PM in response to Zydeco's Cajun Restaurants

It opens fine in every program and every format. It crashes on print as a native Pages file, a PDF, a JPG, a TIFF, etc...no matter how I convert it or what program I use to convert it. It crashes when I remove each font in turn, each graphic, each element and try to print... Oh well, I'm calling this one closed...

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Answer 4

vitafilm

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Sep 28, 2009 12:47 PM in response to Zydeco's Cajun Restaurants

I am having the same issue... I am unable to print from any application at all.
Photshop CS4, Numbers, Preview, etc... they all crash when going to print.
I have deleted the printers and added the printer again to no avail.
Help!

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Answer 5

Oct 6, 2009 9:35 AM in response to Zydeco's Cajun Restaurants

This is not a sufficient work around. Every program I am trying to print from, or page set-up will crash whatever program I am trying to print from.

And I have no idea why.

Nothing has changed in the setup.

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Answer 6

vitafilm

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Oct 25, 2009 10:07 PM in response to Zydeco's Cajun Restaurants

Still having same issue... Crashing when trying to print from any application.
I did get a message now though...
"The Application Numbers quit unexpectedly.
The problem may have been caused by the NSPrintSetting Plug-in"

I Googled this "NSPrintSetting Plug-in", but didnt find much. It may be related to Epson however.
Im afraid I am going to have to do a clean install. ;-{

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Answer 7

vitafilm

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Oct 28, 2009 12:37 AM in response to Zydeco's Cajun Restaurants

I was able to find the source of my Printing problem...
I removed all the drivers for all my Printers in HD/Library/Printers
including the installed printers.plist file...

I then Re-started my computer and re-installed my 2 Printers, Epson Workforce 600, Epson 4000.
Now back to printing! yeah! I was worried I was going to have to do a clean install.

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