Please describe the problem:
Printing a PDF document (or using preview) results in a PS file being generated with the correct number of pages, but nothing on each page.

Steps to reproduce:
Select Print..., click on Print Preview.

Actual results:
You see the correct number of pages but they are blank in the print preview.

Expected results:
Should be able to see the rendered document.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
This only happens if, for any reason, during the configure of evince, it fails to locate either of the symbols in the poppler library:

    poppler_page_render
    poppler_page_render_for_printing

Later in the PDF backend code you have :

#ifdef HAVE_POPPLER_PAGE_RENDER_FOR_PRINTING
    poppler_page_render_for_printing (poppler_page, ctx->cr);
#else
#ifdef HAVE_POPPLER_PAGE_RENDER
    poppler_page_render (poppler_page, ctx->cr);
#endif
#endif

In this case described, you end up doing nothing here - and as such everything looks fine until later you try to print, but nothing comes out.

Ideally this should fail at compile time - either in the configure script or later by using a #error like:

#ifdef HAVE_POPPLER_PAGE_RENDER_FOR_PRINTING
    poppler_page_render_for_printing (poppler_page, ctx->cr);
#else
#ifdef HAVE_POPPLER_PAGE_RENDER
    poppler_page_render (poppler_page, ctx->cr);
#else
#error "Must have either poppler_page_render_for_printing or poppler_page_render"
#endif
#endif

The configure script would seem to be the best place to do this since it's where 
you need to look to fix the issue.