Comment 67 for bug 310854

*sigh* When you want it to succeed, it fails. When you'd like to have it fail in order to make sure what you're doing makes a difference, you can't get it to misbehave no matter what.

So I thought I'd have it on record failing before installing poppler-utils; then installing and see what the difference would be. And if none, go through the other pieces of advice in case something else would do the trick.

Nine printouts later, all high res; three 4-in-1-page; one 2-in-1; 3 single image A4 pages all beautifully printed. Each and every one through gThumb, which failed miserably last time I tried; every page with margin 0 0 0 0. This has been foolproof settings for failed printouts before now, but there you go.

I haven't updated a single package, nor done anything else. In other words: no reasons what so ever for it to succeed! *sigh* (Mind you, even in the past not every print has failed. Usually one or two, maybe four though that's been stretching it, has succeeded, followed by a long string of failed attempts.)

I'll have another go with the user some day soon; as soon as a printout fails again, I guess.

Installed poppler-utils 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1 now though, just to have done something productive; uninstalled xpdf-utils in the process. Who knows, maybe there's been some white computer-magick going on somehow. ;-D (And how annoying wouldn't that be...)