should display an indicator while printing

Well, just after I submitted this bug report, the printer whirred into life and printed the document! So it appears that it just took ages for Evince to send the document to the spooler. I guess the bug is that there is no feedback given to the user about what Evince is doing while it submits a print job.

Thanks for your report, Which version of Ubuntu and Evince are you using?

7.10, evince is at 2.20.1-0ubuntu1.

the bug has been fixed upstream now

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.25.4-0ubuntu1

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evince (2.25.4-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    New Features and UI Improvements:
    - Show progress information when loading/saving remote files
      (lp: #273611)
    - Remember page setup options (lp: #224882)
    - Show a confirmation dialog when there are pending print jobs
      while closing the main window (lp: #139907)
    - Show progress information when printing (lp: #178437)
    - Add document URI to properties page
    Bug fixes:
    - Bump glib requirement to fix build with older versions
    - Fix mime type handling
    - Fix saving images to remote locations
    - Do not try to jump to the location of the find result for every match, but
      only for the first one. It makes searching really faster.
    - Fix zip mime-type in comics backend
    - Fix several memory leaks
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated build requirement

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:56:51 +0100