Evince does not print a particular PDF properly

Do you have issues printing with any other programs or just this. I have successfully printed it on a hp-PCS1215. If it happens on other programs I would be tempted to say it was a problem with the printer driver. If not then the issue may of been fixed as I am using Feisty. Evince 0.7.0

I am using edgy (evince 0.6.1-0ubuntu1, so the same as you) and I also cannot reproduce the bugreport.

I am running an x86 platform - do you too?

> Do you have issues printing with any other programs or just this.

Just this (that I know of). Like I said, it prints fine with Gnome PDF Viewer and Adobe Acrobat.

> I am running an x86 platform - do you too?

Yes.

I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403532

That's a poppler bug according to upstream, I've forwarded it to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9853

For informations :
evince 0.7.2 under feisty 20070215 have no problem to print this pdf

I have no problem to print this document either. Looks like a printing problem rather than a poppler one.

Is that a postscript printer? Printing to file creates an empty output.ps file, while other PDFs do the right thing.

I have another PDF that does not print correctly with evince, but does print properly with other PDF applications.

Unfortunately, this is my tax return, so I can't share it. :)

I can't print with evince my CV created with OpenOffice.org.
This works fine with acroread. I also can print other document with Mozilla Firefox, on Gnome test page.

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty.

Gnome Printer state is job:stopped

Cups status on web interface is : /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed

In /var/log/cups/error_log, I can see
E [26/Apr/2007:11:25:33 +0200] [Job 6] /undefined in <CE><U+0778>
E [26/Apr/2007:11:25:33 +0200] PID 8506 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stop
ped with status 3!

I got an HP Deskjet 995C connected through bluetooth.

Id2ndR, in your case GhostScript was not able to convert the PostScript coming from evince's print function to the printer's native language. Either evince has produced broken PostScript or there is a bug in ESP GhostScript.

Can you try GPL GhostScript? Do

sudo apt-get install gs-gpl
sudo update-alternatives --config gs

and choose gs-gpl in the menu. Then try to print again, the same file on the same printer. Does it work?

If you are not able to print on another printer (connected to the same machine) now, revert to ESP GhostScript with

sudo update-alternatives --config gs

and choosing gs-esp.

Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> Id2ndR, in your case GhostScript was not able to convert the PostScript
> coming from evince's print function to the printer's native language.
> Either evince has produced broken PostScript or there is a bug in ESP
> GhostScript.
>

Ok, thanks for this piece of information.

> Can you try GPL GhostScript? Do
>
> sudo apt-get install gs-gpl
> sudo update-alternatives --config gs
>
> and choose gs-gpl in the menu. Then try to print again, the same file on
> the same printer. Does it work?
>

I just did it. It doesn't work better.
I still have status 3 on the error log.

> If you are not able to print on another printer (connected to the same
> machine) now, revert to ESP GhostScript with
>

I only have one printer, so I can't try an other one.

> sudo update-alternatives --config gs
>
> and choosing gs-esp.
>
>

I'll revert waiting for more information.

This bug no longer occurs for me in Gutsy.

This bug no longer occurs for me too (in Gutsy).

Don't know whether it was really in Poppler (I think the replacement of ESP Ghostscript by the merged GPL Ghostscript fixed the problem), but now both reporters tell that it is fixed in Gutsy, closing ...

I have still a lot of customers who sometimes complain about impossibility to print from evince. Everytime this happens, the workaround is to print to PDF from evince (sic!) and then print the PDF generated from the PDF.

Most of the times the PDF has some issues (reported by pdf2ps), but not everytime.

I have here two PDF files (that I unfortunately cannot attach or upload publicly) that show this problem under Gutsy.

If a developer is wanting to look at them, I might send them to him or follow his instructions in order to determine the problem.

do you still get the issue in hardy or intrepid?

One of the document I was not able to print in Hardy now prints in Intrepid. As for the linked document in the bug description it doesn't seem to be (anymore) a valid PDF document (acroread, xpdf and evince all fail to read it here).

Page 5 of the following document does not print correctly for me from evince:

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/online/ss-5.pdf

The triangle arrows are not printed in the correct location. Printing from Acrobat Reader on Windows XP works correctly. Should I file this under a new bug or does it count as "Evince does not print a particular PDF properly"?

Sorry, I forgot to post my version information:

Ubuntu 8.10
Evince 2.24.1
Printing to a Brother DCP-7020

trjonescp: It would be best to open a new bug. Thanks.

The original forms location has changed to:
http://www.networkwestmidlands.com/directdebit/appForms.aspx

Next time someone opens a bug like this, please attach any related files.

Two people confirmed the bug wasn't present in Gutsy.

So, closing this as invalid.

could you try if that's still an issue and add an example if that's one?

the issue should be fixed in karmic now closing the bug, you can reopen if you still get it though

Ubuntu 9.10 Linux 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
evince: 2.28.1-ubuntu1.2 (karmic-updates)

I still have this bug with the attached file using evince. It prints fine with acroread or xpdf.
The workaround printing to a pdf using evince and then printing that pdf file from evince mentioned in comment #16 works for me.
With evince I get a printout saying;
ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: 0a "0a" COMMAND TYPE: nametype
and more...

I just checked the file from message 29 and it prints fine now on Ubuntu 10.10 Linux 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
and
evince 2.23.0-0ubuntu1.1
Thanks.