Acroread printing on AIX

Hi,
We are in the middle of migrating an 11.5.10.2 customer from TRU64 to AIX 5.3 64-bit.
We are using reports generator to create our output files in our concurrent manager, we are NOT USING PASTA. We then use the driver arguments command to use acroread to print these output files to a postscript printer. Our postscript printing does not format correctly. In some cases the page is missing it's top 0.5cm, in another it goes off the right hand side of the page. Our page szie should be A4.
The command we are using is cat $PROFILES$.FILENAME | /usr/local/bin/acrobat4/bin/acroread -toPostScript -shrink | lp -c -d$PROFILES$PRINTER -n$PROFILES$.CONC_COPIES
Running the command from the OS gives the exact same result. cat 01234567.out | /usr/local/bin/acrobat4/bin/acroread -toPostScript -shrink | lp -c -dhp_print_01 -n1 i.e. the printing alignment is not correct.
We are running E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 on AIX 5.3 64-bit. We have already sorted out the LIBPATH issue (ours is now unset when we run from the command line).
When I take the o1234567.out file to a the original TRU64 OS and run the exact same command the output prints perfectly.
My question is has anyone managed to get reports generated concurrent manager output file printing correctly on AIX, if so, what do we need to do to get this working?
Some other information to consider are when we take a test.pdf file generated with XML Publisher and run the acroread command, we do not get any postscript output created.
When we take the 01234567.out file and run it through pdf2ps on the AIX box, the output is mis-aligned again.
Running test.pdf through pdf2ps produces a postscript file that prints in the correct format.
Do we need to change the SRW File for the printer driver, does anyone have an example for AIX?
Also, is our only option to install PASTA?
Regards,
Tim.

All, the reason for this issue was the version of acroread we were using. We had acroread7 installed, and we have since rolled back to acroread5. This issue is now resolved.

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we are looking for printing tools on Aix server interfacing with Forte
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We have written a custom Forte system for bill printing. We store all our
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Subject: Printing on Aix
Hi,
we are looking for printing tools on Aix server interfacing with
Forte
and Oracle (batch print for billing).
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