Comment 6 for bug 891074

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Your captured print job data is PostScript and not PDF and as evince emits print jobs in PDF format I am wondering with which program you are printing (If I print with evince, the job comes out correctly). Can you please tell which program (and which options) you have used?

What CUPS does with your print job is to turn it to PDF with Ghostscript then do page management (support for options like N-up, or printing only selected pages) with the pdftopdf filter and afterwards converting it back to PostScript, again with Ghostscript. I can reproduce it by running tyhe two Ghostscript steps separately:

ps2pdf d00043-001
pdf2ps d00043-001.pdf

The file d00043-001.pdf looks OK when displaying on the screen with evince or Ghostscript. The file d00043-001.ps resulting of the second command looks like your broken printout.

So the problem seems to be in Ghostscript, but one can work around it when printing from evince.