does not print

[Alex Valavanis]

From: Luis Felipe López Acevedo <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: inkscape: does not print
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:39:20 -0500
Package: inkscape
Version: 0.48.3.1-1.3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I cannot print from Inkscape.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Inkscape and save a file (e.g. drawing.svg).
2. Go to File --> Print.
3. Select the printer (HP Deskjet-D1400-series in my case).
4. Press the Print button.

Unexpected behaviour:

The drawing is not printed. It gets queued as "drawing.svg" but remains in
status "Processing", blocking subsequent printing jobs. This can be seen in
User --> System Settings --> Printers --> YOUR_PRINTER --> Jobs --> Show.

Expected behaviour:

The drawing is printed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_CO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_CO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages inkscape depends on:
ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1+build1
ii libaspell15 0.60.7~20110707-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libatkmm-1.6-1 2.22.6-1
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3
ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.10.0-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1
ii libgc1c2 1:7.1-9.1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1+build1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.32.1-1
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.4-2
ii libgomp1 4.7.2-5
ii libgsl0ldbl 1.15+dfsg.2-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.24.2-1
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1
ii liblcms1 1.19.dfsg-1.2
ii libmagick++5 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2
ii libmagickcore5 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii libpangomm-1.4-1 2.28.4-1
ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1
ii libpoppler-glib8 0.18.4-6
ii libpoppler19 0.18.4-6
ii libpopt0 1.16-7
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
ii libwpd-0.9-9 0.9.4-3
ii libwpg-0.2-2 0.2.1-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-14.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages inkscape recommends:
ii aspell 0.60.7~20110707-1
ii imagemagick 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2
ii libwmf-bin 0.2.8.4-10.3
ii perlmagick 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2
ii pstoedit 3.60-2+b1

Versions of packages inkscape suggests:
ii dia 0.97.2-8
ii libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.24.4-2
pn libsvg-perl <none>
pn libxml-xql-perl <none>
ii python 2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii python-lxml 2.3.2-1
ii python-numpy 1:1.6.2-1.2
pn python-uniconvertor <none>
ii ruby1.8 [ruby] 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u1
pn skencil <none>

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at <email address hidden> (full text, mbox, reply):

From: dE <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 22:40:53 +0530
I confirm this.

Actually the GTK print dialog is broken. It does not allow you to set
the correct page size, as a result Cups does not print, and only shows
processing.

As a workaround, first print as PDF, then print the PDF.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2

Possibly upstream bug in older versions of Gtk+ 2.24, e.g.
- Bug #998156 “GTK Print dialog sends broken custom page size attr...”
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/998156

That upstream bug was fixed later in Gtk+ 2.24.15:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=gtk-2-24&id=d9f9925878773fb37d1a385a929ddcbb4ef8fb80