Comment 18 for bug 443026
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| Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote Re: Printing produces broken PDF | #18 |
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Here I can only say the same as I already said in bug 419143:
The problem is not the fact whether evince produces PostScript or PDF output when sending a print job to CUPS but the PDF which gets sent to CUPS. This is not necessarily produced by evince, but rather by some library like GTK or Cairo. So a real fix has to be done in the appropriate library.
Another, but only partial fix would be to make evince simply passing through the input file if it is PDF. This does not cover the case of evince be used to display a non-PDF file (PostScript could also be passed through).
Making evince outputting PostScript again is only a workaround for the time being until PDF generation gets fixed. In addition, this causes other problems which we solved by switching over to PDF output. If we do this step, it only should be done in the Ubuntu package, not upstream.
Also any attempt to solve the problem by modifying the CUPS filters is only a workaround, as CUPS prints all PDF files from other sources than evince just fine.