GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 416668
Evolution doesn't print the entire contact contents
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:13:54 UTC
Please describe the problem: Right clicking on a contact or from "File" menu, doesn't print the entire contact's Notes Section. I usually see this with Print Preview or when exporting to ps/pdf too. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
can you provide a screenshot here?
I don't have any "notes" that I could send you as I keep some private stuff within them. I suppose I could create a contact with some jottings, but trust me, for some reason, I think it stops printing the entire notes section if it requires a second page or more to print.
Created attachment 86700 [details] screen shot - the notes if exceeds more than one page , prints only one page contents
Thanks for the screen shot. Glad it's just not me. ;-)
Even more interesting, select a range of contacts and print them all. It seems like the printing is limited to one page. Steps to reproduce: 1. Select a number of contacts (more than 10 to be sure it's > 1 page) 2. Right click and press Print 3. Press Print Preview 4. Observe that there's only one page and not all contacts fit in that page Errors spewed to the console: (evolution-2.10:1941): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_layout_set_text: assertion `length == 0 || text != NULL' failed (evolution-2.10:1941): addressbook-printing-CRITICAL **: get_font_width: assertion `text' failed (evolution-2.10:1941): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_layout_set_text: assertion `length == 0 || text != NULL' failed (evolution-2.10:1941): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_layout_set_text: assertion `length == 0 || text != NULL' failed
Right. I don't know printing multiple contacts and cutting them to fit the paper layout is a feature or not. In the past, Evolution would print entire contact fields. Every year, I like to make a hard copy of my Contacts and use the notes section frequently. Just for reference, I'm seeing the following masked packages for my Gentoo distro: gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.10.* mail-client/evolution-2.10.* I don't know if my two bugs are fixed within these major version updates.
It's not fixed in 2.10.1. This could be quite low-hanging fruit, as one probably only need to make the text flow onto multiple pages.
Still in 3.2.3
I reported this bug so long ago. I've also, long ago, switched to Mutt (ASCII/Text/NCurses EMail Client) and ABook (ASCII/Text/NCurses Contact Manager). Ever since my switch, I have always been able to print or view anything anyway, using command line print filters or other methods. And, I have yet to have a failure viewing anything because the program failed to start. Even if a program failed to start, I can simply use cat/vim to view the email/contact. For archiving, I just tarball the folder. GUI stuff has it's reliability issues. Especially when the text data is maintained within a database.
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