Description of problem: Compared to Adobe Acrobat 8.1.1, evince's PS output is much larger than acroread's. This results in the inability to print such PDFs on memory-starved printers. For example, the attached PDF is converted to 9MB PS file by evince and won't print on a HP LJ2200 with 8MB RAM. The same PDF printed from acroread is converted to 1MB PS file and prints fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.20.2-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set up a HP LJ2200 PS printer (8MB RAM) 2. try printing the attached PDF from evince Actual results: The file fails to print because it is too large. Expected results: The file should print without problems.
Created attachment 293726 [details] sample PDF file to reproduce the problem
Almost certainly a cairo problem.
Reassigning to cairo.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cairo-1.4.14-1.fc8
Kristien, does your recent cairo fixes help here?
I doubt it, but Adrians PS fixes over here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/cairo/log/?h=ps_fixes should. We could pull that patch series into our RPM and if it improves things, ping Adrian to commit it.
See also: http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-February/013052.html
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I believe this is still not fixed.
I tested with Rawhide and evince generated a PS file 1MB large.
Rawhide is not CURRENTRELEASE. :) However, I have re-tested with F-10's evince-2.24.2-1.fc10 and the PS file is ~800KB, so yes, it appears to have been fixed.