pdf prints blank (due to transparency?)
Submitted by PaulN
Link to original bug (#621359)
Description
Created attachment 163460 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.
Attachment 163460, "pdf that prints as blank page from evince":
SampleTransparent.pdf
Version: 2.28.x