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Bug 527868 - Printing some PDFs produced weird unintentional spaces
Printing some PDFs produced weird unintentional spaces
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: printing
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-13 13:11 UTC by Pascal de Bruijn
Modified: 2008-11-02 11:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Attachments
Test PDF (30.39 KB, application/pdf)
2008-04-13 13:12 UTC, Pascal de Bruijn
Details

Description Pascal de Bruijn 2008-04-13 13:11:39 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When printing the attached PDF, Evince introduces weird unintentional spaces. These spaces sometimes occur within words.

These spaces destroy the legibility of the printed document.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open test.pdf with Evince
2. File - Print (HP DeskJet)



Actual results:
Weird spaces in the all paragraphs (some examples):
t   ypes of f   oot soldiers
A t    ypical unit
try is bet   ween five and t  en models str  ong but

Expected results:
Normal output like this:
types of foot soldiers
A typical unit
try is between five and ten models strong but

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
I've tried printing the attached PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 for Linux, which printed the document properly (as intended).
Comment 1 Pascal de Bruijn 2008-04-13 13:12:52 UTC
Created attachment 109169 [details]
Test PDF

This PDF was generated with Heirloom Troff/DPost to PostScript and converted to PDF with GhostScript 8.61 (ps2pdf13).
Comment 2 Pascal de Bruijn 2008-04-13 13:14:40 UTC
I was using:
Evince 2.22 (poppler cairo 0.6.4) on Ubuntu Hardy (beta)
Comment 3 Carlos Garcia Campos 2008-04-15 13:25:00 UTC
hmm, I can't reproduce it with cairo 1.6.4, what cairo version do you have? 
Comment 4 Adrian Johnson 2008-11-02 10:27:58 UTC
One of the 1.5.x development snapshots of cairo that a beta version of Hardy was using had this bug. It was fixed in 1.6.0.