Printing Error: undefined Offending Command - PDFs with Electronic Signatures

Some PDF documents that are generated on Windows may use Adobe Live Cycle Designer which embeds certain Acrobat plug-in requests within the PDF, and those eSignature services may be doing that, or employing the latest PDF signature extensions that are still incompatible with Preview. Apple's Preview will explode when it encounters these embedded Acrobat plug-in requests as it is not based on Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

Install the latest, free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, open the PDF, and print from there to see if Adobe's more current PDF support resolves this issue. There are certain types of PDF that Apple's Preview application does not handle properly.

Wtschabold wrote:

I have a user that started to get the following error whenever they try to print a document, (PDF Files), that has been passed through an electronic signature service. They can print any other document just fine but when they try to print one that has had an electronic signature added only the following is printed. Any ideas? It is not specific to a singe document.

ERROR: undefined

OFFENDING COMMAND: N p ?p

STACK:

-dictionary-

/S=CharStrings

-dictionary-

-dictionary-

/Private

-dictionary-

-dictionary-

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