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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