PDF printing from Evince through CUPS is very slow, sometimes fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cairo (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
|
Unassigned | ||
poppler (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
When printing a PDF document from Evince using a CUPS defined printer, printing the document takes very long (up to 30 minutes). The ghostscript process runs at 100% CPUTIME.
Here is the captures ghostscript command of one of the print test :
gs -dFirstPage=1 -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pxlmono -r600x600 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=- /var/spool/
This is the only evidence that ghostscript is responsible for the problem. Backporting the cups-1.4.5.3 would remove gs out of the equation, hopefully fixing the problem.
Reproducible: 100%
Workaround:
Use the acroread PDF viewer which does not show this problem
Request:
PDF conversions using ghostscripts have been identified by previous bugs (LP#668800 ) and have been fixed in cups 1.4.5.3 by using poppler instead of ghostscript. We believe that a backport of the solution already present in Maverick/Natty to Lucid might solve the problem
Changed in cups (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) |
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Lars Uebernickel (larsu) |
tags: | added: customersupport |
tags: | removed: customersupport |
Thanks for reporting this bug. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it on my machine. Can you please attach the file which causes ghostscript to take this long (if it doesn't contain any sensitive data).