Thomas, probably it is possible to build FF and TB with the system's
libcairo. I do not know why the maintainers of these packages stick to
stone-old libraries which have many bugs which are already fixed in the
current version.
But I will not do this fix as I am not the maintainer of FF and TB. The
bug is also assigned to these packages so the actual maintainers will
see this discussion and hopefully apply the fix. You can help them by
attaching patches/debdiffs.
So as we know the solution now and that it is in FF and TB and not in
cups and cups-filters, I am closing the appropriate tasks.
Thank you very much for investigating this.
** Changed in: cups-filters (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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Title:
printing PDFs (and other complex documents) from GTK applications
fails
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
New
Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Hello,
I'm discovering a bug when printing complex PDFs or other complex
documents from GTK applications. Printing complex PDFs from evince, or
sometimes even printing comples webpages from firefox result in one
error page being printed instead of the document content:
+-------------------------+
| ERROR NAME; |
| undefined |
| COMMAND; |
| Q |
| OPERAND STACK; |
+-------------------------+
My printer is a Brother HL 5270DN. It doesn't matter whether the
printer is connected via USB or as network printer. In both cases the
described bug does happen. The PPD I use is "Brother HL-5270DN BR-
Script3", similar to the one at
http://www.openprinting.org/download/PPD/Brother/BR5270_2_GPL.ppd
I discovered this bug in up-to-date Debian unstable for several years
already. Now I switched one of my laptops to Ubuntu Natty (fresh
installation), and unfortunately discovered the same bug there as
well.
I'm pretty sure that this bug is related to bug #419143, and not
really in CUPS, but rather in some library (poppler or cairo) used by
GTK applications. The same PDFs that produce the described error in
evince, print fine in okular.
I attach an example PDF that doesn't print in evince, but prints fine
in okular. It's sufficient to (try to) print page 1 of the document.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-0.5~20110427-generic 2.6.39-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-0-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog:
Date: Tue Jun 28 13:13:29 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
Lpstat: device for Brother-HL-5270DN: lpd://192.168.1.75/PASSTHRU
MachineType: LENOVO 4180W1H
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: Brother-HL-5270DN: Brother HL-5270DN BR-Script3
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de:en
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.39-0-generic
root=/dev/mapper/vgsys-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/13/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 83ET56WW (1.26 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 4180W1H
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr83ET56WW(1.26):bd05/13/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4180W1H:pvrThinkPadT420:rvnLENOVO:rn4180W1H:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 4180W1H
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T420
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
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