From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: I tried printing of the following file: http://junk.brisbane.redhat.com/gb18030/double3.txt that file was needed about 3 hours for outputting PS on my machine. it's unbelievable! and PS file which is actually output can't be shown with gs because gnome-print has a bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.get double3.txt 2.run gedit with LANG=zh_CN.gb18030 3.read it and printing Actual Results: for printing, it needs a lot times. Expected Results: gb18030's font is too big. so I think that about 2 or 3 minutes would be better. Additional info:
Created attachment 51484 [details] fix patch is here
the above patch saved a lot of times. actually it finished printing that file in about 2 or 3 minutes on my machine. it's reasonable, I think. it also contains gnome-print's bug fix. - if (dx == 0 && dy == 0) return NULL; + if (dx == 0 && dy == 0) retval = g_strdup (""); this code should not return NULL. (null) was output by this into PS file. I will file this bug and patch to bugzilla.gnome.org too.
Tagoh you're our gnome-print expert so I'll trust your patch is correct. Can you rebuild gnome-print? I'm going to be gone this week for guadec.
ok, I have built gnome-print with this patch. this problem will be fixed in 0.35-4. Thanks.
the improvement of printing performance patch was missed in 0.37 - that patch has been merged in 1.x series though. so we have this problem again in recent beta. I submitted a patch again to the upstream bugzilla. see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77182.
the upstream marked it as WONTFIX, because they don't plan to release the 0.x series anymore. but it's apparently affected our products. This patch was applied to our old release, and it has been merged to the GNOME 2.x releases. so can you apply it to our gnome-print?
I'm going to be away for the next few days, but if you (or someone else) want to apply the patch to our gnome-print RPM, I'm OK with that. [ Irrelevant comment -- I think the code would be a whole lot clearer and also more efficient if was using a GString as a buffer. I'm *not* suggesting you change this for our RPM. ]
I don't have enough time to improve it until last public beta. original patch was applied. this problem should be fixed in 0.37-4.
The original patch is fine, thanks.