Evince generates large print jobs that never complete

[Neilen Marais]

Binary package hint: evince

If I print a document (such as the one attached below), evince generates large print jobs (~3MB for the 9 page doc attached) that takes forever to print. While wating, a ghostscript process (gs) takes 100% cpu. This process does not complete within a reasonable time (I cancelled the job after waiting 20 minutes).

Using xpdf to print the same document results in a ~800kb printjob that prints almost instantly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 17 18:25:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

[Neilen Marais (neilenmarais)]

Oh, forgot to mention, I figured this out thanks to a forum post reporting the samebehaviour: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10570469

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that still an issue in newer versions?

[Neilen Marais (neilenmarais)]

Seems to be OK in Ubuntu 15.04. I vote for closing the bug.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Debian bug is showing as being fixed in version 3.4.0
Further to comment #4 by reporter closing as fixed