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If I use the T1 fonts in LaTeX, Evince cannot print the PDF files any more. Actually printing takes very long and outputs a rastered image. With the Adobe Reader everything works fine. In the related Ubuntu bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/227186), Sebastian Bacher asked to open a bug report for poppler. Actually I'm not sure, whether this is a bug in poppler or in cairo. There is another related bug report in Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/150187).

Here are the details:

I created a small sample LaTeX file (test.tex), which demonstrates the bug. If I compile it without the "fontenc" package using pdflatex, everything works fine in Evince. I named this PDF file "good.pdf". If I compile it with the "fontenc" package (and the option "T1", which uses fonts of a certain LaTeX font encoding), pdflatex creates a PDF file ("wrong.pdf") that Evince cannot print correctly any more. I also attach the printing output of Evince, when using the PDF printer. I named these file "good.printed.pdf" and "wrong.printed.pdf".

The following graphic illustrates the described setting.

              test.tex

pdflatex: / \

      good.pdf wrong.pdf

Evince: | |

 good.printed.pdf wrong.printed.pdf

Since the problem is somehow related to fonts, I also compile the font information of pdffonts and the Adobe Reader in the following:

pdffonts on good.pdf:
  name type emb sub uni object ID
  ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
  FYHDIM+CMSSBX10 Type 1 yes yes no 4 0
  PTMTFG+CMR10 Type 1 yes yes no 5 0

pdffonts on good.printed.pdf:
  name type emb sub uni object ID
  ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
  UFQSLH+f-1-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 10 0
  ZRSKVS+f-0-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 8 0

pdffonts on wrong.pdf:
  name type emb sub uni object ID
  ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
  [none] Type 3 yes no no 4 0
  [none] Type 3 yes no no 5 0

pdffonts on wrong.printed.pdf:
  name type emb sub uni object ID
  ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------

Adobe Reader on good.pdf:
  CMR10 (Eingebettete Untergruppe) [engl: embedded subgroup]
    Typ: Type 1
    Kodierung: Mitgeliefert [engl: Coding: shipped/supported]
  CMSSBX10 (Eingebettete Untergruppe)
    Typ: Type 1
    Kodierung: Mitgeliefert

Adobe Reader on good.printed.pdf:
  f-0-0 (Eingebettete Untergruppe)
    Typ: Type 1
    Kodierung: Benutzerdefiniert [engl: Coding: User defined]
  f-1-0 (Eingebettete Untergruppe)
    Typ: Type 1
    Kodierung: Benutzerdefiniert

Adobe Reader on wrong.pdf:
  F16
    Typ: Type 3
    Kodierung: Benutzerdefiniert
    Originalschrift: F16 [engl: source/former/original font: F16]
    Originalschrifttyp: Type 3 [engl: original font type: Type 3]
  F19
    Typ: Type 3
    Kodierung: Benutzerdefiniert
    Originalschrift: F19
    Originalschrifttyp: Type 3

Adobe Reader on wrong.printed.pdf:
  (Empty widget)

Evince states version 2.22.2 with poppler 0.6.4 (cairo). It's the Ubuntu 8.04 package. If you need any more information, I'd be glad to help.

Sincerly, Simon