Printing Markups to Postscript file

I am using the latest Solaris version of Acrobat Reader (7.0.9) to print PDF files. We use the -toPostscript and -markupsOn command line options to create PostScript files which we then send to lp. This works fine unless there's a markup on the drawing which was added by Adobe Acrobat Professional. The drawing prints fine but the markup is either so garbled as to be unreadable or doesn't show at all on the print. The server is running Solaris 9 and the entire command line is as follows:<br />/usr/bin/acroread7.0.9 --display=ohi05:2 -toPostScript -size tabloid -shrink -markupsOn -level2 -pairs <file> <file><br />Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi George,
I am not able to reroduce the problem at my end.
What Acrobat version was used to create the markups?
Please send us the bugfile, if possible.
Thanks & Regards,
Rishi

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instead.
Bob
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