Bug#424071: evince: printing produces blank pages

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 09:53 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> [I'm reporting this bug against the experimental evince, but I observed it
> with the unstable and testing versions as well.  Also, I don't know for
> certain that it is evince's fault; please feel free to reassign it to
> whichever part of the print chain is actually generating the bad PostScript.]
> 
> Whenever I print anything from evince, I get N blank pages (where N is the
> number of pages that should have printed) instead of the actual content.
> My printer speaks PostScript directly, and this does not happen if I run
> the PDF through pdftops and feed the result to the printer (bypassing the
> entire print spooler).  Yesterday I wanted to manipulate the printout a
> bit before actually printing it, so I used print to file, and discovered
> that the problem is actually in the PostScript generated by evince,
> not in the communication with the printer (as I had thought).
> 
> I'm attaching two PostScript files.  Both are page one of the document
> http://www.mpi.nl/world/persons/private/baayen/publications/baayenCUPstats.pdf
> (personal use only license).  baayen-pg1-bad.ps was generated by evince,
> by selecting 'Generic Postscript' in the print dialog box, print to file,
> and restricting the printout to page one.  baayen-pg1-good.ps was generated
> by pdftops on the same file, with -f 1 -l 1.
> 
> Conveniently, both methods use basically the same PDF-to-Postscript converter,
> so the diff is readable.  I think the problem is here:
> 
> $ diff -u baayen-pg1-{bad,good}.ps
> ....
>  %%Page: 1 1
>  %%BeginPageSetup
>  %%PageOrientation: Landscape
>  pdfStartPage
> -2.9924e-17 0.207563 translate
> --0.0017 -0.0017 scale
> +26.1663 -0 translate
> +0.9406 0.9406 scale
>  0 0 595 842 re W
>  %%EndPageSetup
> 
> .... I may be misreading it, but it looks like evince's output is scaling the
> entire page down so small that it doesn't even produce a single pixel in the
> printout.

Hi,

Are you still having this problem with evince on testing, or can the bug
be closed?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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