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evince package

font layout broken after few prints

Bug #673989 reported by sven on 2010-11-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #661724: Printing certain documents yields characters scattered all over the page. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evince (Ubuntu)	Fix Committed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

Printing a pdf file produces garbled printing of letters after a few printouts.

This happens when printing to my real printer (Lexmark x215 laser printer) and when printing to pdf file. It does NOT happen when printing to ps file. I suspect here, that same method is used for printing to pdf file and to my printer.

I cannot give the fully exact procedure for triggering this bug. It seems to happens after a few prints of the same document, probably connected to printing only selected pages.

This must be a bug in evince or related libraries, or in gnome handling of document printing, as cups is not used when printing to pdf file.

Please fix this!

I seldomly print, and everytime something else is broken :( .. I'm really tired of wasting paper, bug tracing every time I try to print..

Workaround: Print first to .ps file, then print the .ps file on real printer.

Regards
Sven

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 11 13:25:10 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

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sven (post-svennielsen) wrote on 2010-11-11:

example of garbled printout Edit (133.1 KiB, application/pdf)
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
KernLog.txt Edit (9.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (31.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (785 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (155 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (77.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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sven (post-svennielsen) wrote on 2010-11-11:

Original file that was printed Edit (33.9 KiB, application/pdf)

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Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg) wrote on 2010-11-11:

Thank you for your bug report. Your problem looks very similar to bug 661724. For this bug, there is already a fix under way, you can test it by enabling the „proposed“ updates (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed). Could you please try whether this update also solves your issue?

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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sven (post-svennielsen) wrote on 2010-11-12:

Yes, confirm this very likely is a duplicate of Bug #661724. Adding Maverick-proposed and updating to libcairo2 1.10.0-1ubuntu3 seems to fix this issue for me.

Instructions on adding the Maverick-proposed repository can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

Thx for the quick answer!