Printing PDFs with some greyscale images results in the images appearing as negatives

[Kuroshima]

Binary package hint: evince

Some PDFs, such as http://e23.sjgames.com/media/SJG31-1003_preview.pdf (attached, just in case the file is changed) that feature greyscale images.

This only affects greyscale images, not color images (such as the cover, p.1) not text, nor vector images. I don't have the tools to see what format the images were encoded in, though.

Printing through the non-free Acrobat Reader works perfectly.

Version information:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1
  Candidate: 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1

apt-cache policy ghostscript
ghostscript:
  Installed: 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 7 17:56:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-02 (4 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[bitinerant (bitinerant)]

Thank you, Kuroshima, for reporting this. I have struggled with this bug on Ubuntu 10.10 and 12.04. I didn't report it myself because my problematic PDFs are copyrighted. However, I am attaching a screenshot of Evince's screen display (left) and Evince's print preview (right).

This sounds like a very old Ghostscript bug (http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691760) but I ran the test documented there and it worked fine, so I think it's unrelated.

My work-around was to print via Xpdf, which was awkward but worked. However, now Xpdf is completely broken (bug #943195) and I am without a way to print my maps at all.

[bitinerant (bitinerant)]

Screen shot of the problem attached.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Not reproducible in Trusty.