GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 760750
Evince prints parts of document wrong, but preview is ok.
Last modified: 2018-05-22 16:28:01 UTC
Created attachment 319217 [details] test document Attached document is correct rendered in Evince, print preview is correct too, but the print result is wrong. I've tried to print on CUPS-PDF and HP printer. In both cases I've got equal wrong results. The picture of wrong printed result is attached. System information: Linux: Debian/Testing amd64 Evince: 3.18.2 I've tried this document on Windows 7 x64 using Evince 2.32.0.145. Results are wrong too, but in a different way. FYI I've attached picture of result on Windows too. I'm considering this as an Evince's bug, because in Okular on Linux the document is printed without any issue on CUPS-PDF and on real HP printer. Because the result is wrong, if the document is printed using CUPS-PDF. The issue can be easily reproduced: 1. Install cups-pdf package 2. Open test.pdf document 3. Print it to PDF 4. Look at the results
Created attachment 319218 [details] Print results on Linux (Evince 3.18.2)
Created attachment 319219 [details] Print result on Windows (Evince 2.32.0.145)
Created attachment 324692 [details] Another PDF that triggers this Very similar thing for me. It just started about a week or so ago. This is a PDF created from a Google "print" from Google docs that seems to trigger it. Trying to "print" again (regenerating the PDF) has the same effect, but only on this one sheet from this one google doc. All other sheets work fine. Also, it was working one day last week (Mar 15) and then started doing this the next day (Mar 16) even though I had not modified the source doc (though I had regenerated it using the Google print option, so perhaps they changed something in that algorithm). This looks fine in evince display, and in the print preview, but the main text only prints out a few random characters. Okular and Adobe Reader both display and print it fine. System: Scientific Linux 6.7 evince-2.28.2-14.el6_0.1.i686
Also, I just tried his suggestion of printing to a file. When I bring up the print dialog and choose "Print To File", that print preview looks wrong as well, which is immediately corrected if I then choose a printer, and immediately wrong if I again choose a file. Further, if I actually print to a file (PDF), and then open the file (with evince), the document looks correct. Very oddly specific.
Created attachment 326511 [details] Nearly the same PDF that works fine This is a PDF generated by Google's Print option, from the same sheet as before, though I had made a small formatting change to some of the cells. Now this works perfectly fine. My version of evince has not changed. With luck, there is enough commonality between these two documents that the diff will be small and maybe help point you in a specific direction.
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