A pickle with jpg in a pdf from linux

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dlangschied

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I am at my wits end!

Specifics:
Linux RHEL5.4
Progress 10.1C
ImageMagick (latest)
CUPS-pdf (latest)

I am TRYING to insert a pdf417 barcode into a shipper that is generated as a PDF.

I generated the barcode as a GIF file. I can view this in Windows no problem.
I converted to JPG. I can view this in Windows no problem.
I run my OE code that generates the output to a PDF file on the OS using CUPS-pdf.
If I print, I get a barcode on the shipper that is now three barcodes, not identical and very small. I have no way of scanning this at the moment, but, even so, this is not the desired output.
If I send to myself as an e-mail and open on Windows, I get "Insufficient data for an image".

I am at a total loss as to why this is happening! I am trying to find out from the Linux gurus what could be the issue, but I thought that maybe someone in the Progress world has run into this issue.

Very frustrating!
 
Your linux gurus need to find out what happens inside CUPS-pdf and try to reproduce that, with logfiles. I know it can be frustrating. I make PDF's to fax from PCL files (on windows, even), and it turns out that some documents print just fine, but the printer and the ghostscript program have different ideas about margins, so a one page print turned into a two page fax. The logfiles will help you out, I think.
 
I have narrowed it down to an issue with my jpg conversion, i think. i have an app that generates the barcode as a GIF and I am using convert to make my jpg file. The reason I suspect the conversion is that I tried to convert some text to go beneath the barcode and it was messed up as well. With the barcode, it was harder to tell, but this was text as ps converted to jpg, which should have been a piece of cake.
 
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