This is basically my bug, linked below. It is fixed in Maverick and Natty. The best I could tell it is probably poppler, in that I could use Lucid's version of evince, and it was still small.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/715510 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to poppler in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188973 Title: printing pdf causes abnormally large job -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs