Hi, (using Ubuntu 13.04, evince 3.6.1-1ubuntu3)
when I print a pdf document from evince, I get extra horizontal spaces in the middle of sentences - sometimes between words, and sometimes splitting a word into 2. If I print the pdf from the command line with lpr, this doesn't happen. The pdf-formatted data in CUPS's spool folder is different, depending on whether I use evince or lpr. 'pdfinfo' on the evince print data says "Creator: cairo 1.12.14 (http://cairographics.org)". The pdf file in the print spool looks fine with ghostscript and evince, (ie no extra horizontal space), but adds the spaces when printed (even if I now use lpr to print this generated pdf). I used the 'pdftosrc' program (part of pdftex) to examine the stream data inside the PDF, and every sentence of the document that had extra horizontal space turns out to have an embedded newline inside the text atoms in the stream. IE: $ grep -m2 -A1 '\\$' x.3 [(The Univ)-6(er)3(s)-4(i)-4(t)-8(y)11( of)-9( W)-3(es)-4(tern Aus)-4(tra\ li)-5(a )]TJ -- [(Tit)4(le )-9(\()3(Mr)-4(, M)-3(s, Mr)-11(s, Dr etc)-7(\):)-5( )-9437(Fa\ m)5(il)-16(y)15( )-8(Nam)-5(e:)-7( )]TJ which corresponds to lines printed in the document that look like "The University of Western Austra lia" and "Title (Mr, Ms, Mrs, Dr etc): Fa mily Name:" This may be a bug in the firmware of our Fuji Xerox (ie maybe it's doing the wrong thing with embedded newline characters), but older versions of evince were fine, and I don't think we can modify the printer firmware... This may be a cairo bug instead of an evince bug - I had a quick look through the evince source but couldn't figure out how layout for printing happens. Any thoughts/help? thanks John _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
