Description of problem: PDF document printing from Evince is very slow. Once printing job starts, 'pdftops' process appears on 'htop' with a CPU usage very high per about 2 minutes after which the printer starts to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.5.2-12.fc17 Printer: Canon PIXMA MP270 - CUPS + Gutenprint v5.2.9 Simplified How reproducible: Open pdf file with Evince, launch a print, printer works after about 2 minutes. Actual results: Printing job delayed. Expected results: Immediate printer response. Additional info: Suspicion link with #Bug827632, #Bug828301
Does it behave the same when you print the file with 'lpr file.pdf' ? Is it the same with all pdf files ? Is printing of postscript file (so pdftops is not involved) OK ? I don't think bug #827632 and bug #828301 are related because they are about not printing at all and also when using foomatic driver (you use gutenprint).
(In reply to comment #1) > Does it behave the same when you print the file with 'lpr file.pdf' ? No. > Is it the same with all pdf files ? No. I can tell you that the file is a PDF ver1.4 . I have just tried another (ver1.5) and it is printed fine with Evince. > Is printing of postscript file (so pdftops is not involved) OK ? Yes.
Can you attach an output from printing troubleshooter when printing that file from Evince ? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging#Printing_troubleshooter
Actually it would be useful if you could attach that pdf file too. You can make the attachment private if you want.
(In reply to comment #3) > Can you attach an output from printing troubleshooter when printing that > file from Evince ? > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging#Printing_troubleshooter /var/log/cups/error_log is empty. >Actually it would be useful if you could attach that pdf file too. >You can make the attachment private if you want. Sure. I can tell you more: this problem appears if print the single first page, not with the others.
Created attachment 601304 [details] PDF file
Created attachment 601981 [details] first page as printed to pdf from evince
This seems to be a poppler. If I open the document from comment #6 in evince and print the first page to PDF, then the result makes pdftops and also okular (which I think also uses poppler) eat a lot of CPU.