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>>anothe+(OP)
I have a Brother printer, which supports plugging in a USB stick with a PDF to print the PDF.

Its PDF parser doesn't seem to support all PDFs, and for some PDFs it will PRINT, on paper, an error message from the PDF parser.

So not only did it not print a perfectly valid PDF, it also wasted paper and ink for it.

You can't know beforehand which PDFs it'll support or not from looking at them, any computer / phone PDF viewer supports those. It could be as simple as a PDF sent by an airline.

They should:

1) use a proper PDF library, not some half baked one

2) if something is wrong with the PDF, show the error on screen, not waste paper for it

>>Aardwo+Q2
Heh, I would have preferred that to one of my recent experiences with an HP printer. It would simply silently drop the job only for that specific pdf (an ordinary shipping label of which I had printed many on that machine before). I dug around so many menus trying to figure out where my job was going until I by chance clicked print on a different document. At least with the paper error message I would have known right away to apply the hack of screenshot + print png.