Bug 386431 - Evince is unable to print PDFs
Summary: Evince is unable to print PDFs
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evince
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-16 07:51 UTC by Fridtjof Busse
Modified: 2009-01-09 05:14 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 05:14:00 UTC
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Description Fridtjof Busse 2007-11-16 07:51:47 UTC
Description of problem:
evince in Fedora 8 is unable to print on a brother HL-5250DN (default BR3-script
driver). The only thing the printer prints is a page with an error:
ERROR NAME; undefined COMMAOND; inf OPERAND STACK;
Printing works fine with lpr, so the printerdriver itself seems to work just
fine. Printing with evince used to work on Fedora 7.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.20.1

How reproducible:
Try to print a PDF on a BR3-Script (Brother printer

Comment 1 Thomas J. Baker 2007-11-25 17:39:56 UTC
I'm having the same problem printing PDFs on multiple systems with multiple
postscript printers.  The printer will blink for a while like it's printing
something but then it stops and nothing comes out. Printing the same file under
F7 or F6 works fine.

Comment 2 Brad Longo 2008-02-27 17:10:35 UTC
I am also having a a problem printing pdf files.  My results are the same as
Thomas Baker's.  I noticed though that if I hit print preview I get some
additional  info.  Upon clicking print preview a notification pops up saying
unknown mime type "text/plain".  I don't know if that will help at all in
solving the problem.

Comment 3 Paul Johnson 2008-04-22 16:49:26 UTC
Me too on FC8!  acroread from AdobeReader_enu prints just fine!

Problem seems to happen only when the pdf file has images in it.  Journal
articles from JSTOR are presented in pdf format, but as far as I can tell, the
pdf just contains a bunch of photos of journal pages.  Sometimes printing is
super super slow, but it works.  Other times, the job fails to print, the
printer says "processing job" forever.  Before the most recent "yum update" that
I ran, the jobs would just sit in the queue as displayed in "lpq", but now they
vanish without complaint.

This does not happen if I send jobs to a big fancy HP printer in our main
office. It only happens on the "garden variety" HP laser printers--the ones that
cost less than $500.

I have been experimenting with different ppd files for the HP 1320 laser
printer.  Can't see any difference yet.

In acroread, there are printing options that do not appear in evince.  One can
de-select "download asian fonts" and "save printer memory".  These things seem
to really help in acroread.


Comment 4 antonio montagnani 2008-06-14 11:39:55 UTC
I have same problem in F9 with Evince, Acrobat Reader, XPdf

Comment 5 David Whitney 2008-07-19 19:37:43 UTC
I can't print on F9 either with 'evince'.  It displays PDF documents, but when I
attempt to print, no data is sent to the printer.  The other noticeable
side-effect is that 'evince' starts using 97% of my CPU.

I sure hope this bug is fixed soon!

Comment 6 Matz 2008-10-03 12:32:01 UTC
Maybe this is related to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12769 ?

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 08:29:32 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:14:00 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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