GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 621359
pdf prints blank (due to transparency?)
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:56:04 UTC
Created attachment 163460 [details] pdf that prints as blank page from evince The file was made in MS word 2007, evince says it is pdf v 1.5. It's a tga image with some transparent areas positioned over the top of some text, so should not be very complex (though who knows what MS word actually does?). It displays correctly in evince. The print preview looks OK in evince. But printing from evince results in a blank page, and a quick look at what happens in my filter suggests the raster is all zero bytes. However, I can print to file in evince, making a postscript file. If I open that ps file in evince, it looks OK and prints OK. If you want to play with the file, it is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsdriverkodak/files/SampleTransparent.pdf/dow nload Someone on the cups developer forum gave me this explanation: What evince actually does is generating a new PDF file which is around 10 times bigger than the original. This file is too big and awkward for the (Poppler-based) pdftops CUPS filter to turn it into PostScript. Also other PDF-related CUPS filters, like the Ghostscript-based pdftoraster filter which comes with Debian and Ubuntu has often problems with these files.
Created attachment 183430 [details] Scanned pdf's printed blank All the scans I can make with a Toshiba connected copier are printed as blak pages by Evince ; Adobe makes it right. (OS WinXP sp3, printers Toshiba copier or Brother HL5240) Attached file is an example, but all scans have the same problem.
Evince 2.30.3 Using poppler/cairo (0.14.1)
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