Created attachment 682363 [details] Testfile showing the problem. Description of problem: Some PDF documents (generated by LibreOffice from a ODT file with an included BMP image) fail to print: ther eis no error indication nor any other hint that ther emight be a problem, but no print job is ever generated. The problem appears o depend on the included image - replacing this with another one makes the problem go away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xpdf-3.03-5.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open test file in xpdf 2. Print to your favorite printer Actual results: No error indications, everything looks OK - but no data gets printed. Expected results: A print job with the expected output should be generated. Additional info: acroread or evince will print this file just fine.
I can't reproduce this failure with your testfile on xpdf-3.03-5.fc18.x86_64. xpdf's printing mechanism is idiotically simple, it pipes postscript results into lpr. My best guess is that there is a failure somewhere beyond xpdf where the postscript isn't getting handled. I don't know how acroread works (due to a lack of source), but evince is using the gnome printing dialog, which is notably more complex than lpr, so perhaps thats why it works better. I hate to close this CANTFIX, but I don't know what else to do.
(In reply to comment #1) > I can't reproduce this failure with your testfile on xpdf-3.03-5.fc18.x86_64. for me the problem is still present with xpdf-3.03-5.fc18.x86_64, using the very same testfile attached above. > xpdf's printing mechanism is idiotically simple, it pipes postscript results > into lpr. My best guess is that there is a failure somewhere beyond xpdf > where the postscript isn't getting handled. > > I don't know how acroread works (due to a lack of source), but evince is > using the gnome printing dialog, which is notably more complex than lpr, so > perhaps thats why it works better. > > I hate to close this CANTFIX, but I don't know what else to do. OK, so I open a new bug against cups (Bug 909090).