This turned out to be a bug not in evince but in the cairo library (that evince uses for printing). I submitted it upstream and it got fixed immediately: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31062 Now the only task remaining is to get this fix into Ubuntu.
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #31062 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31062 ** Also affects: cairo via http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31062 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Printing certain documents yields characters scattered all over the page https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661724 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for cairo. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

