Evince fails to print PDF it renders
Submitted by Bruce Ward
Link to original bug (#744356)
Description
Debian 7.8, Evince 3.4.0
Trying to print 2 pages from the LinuxFromScratch version 7.6 pdf which Evince renders properly on screen.
[fail]
gave 1 blank page and error on the second ...
ERROR: invalidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND: Type1BuildGlyph
STACK: -mark- (3 times)
[fail]
Evince Print, Print to File to get output.pdf. Opened with Evince (rendered OK) and sent for printing. Result - exactly as above.
[fail]
Using lp -d to print output.pdf gave exactly the same result as above.
[success]
Use pdftops on output.pdf, use Evince to render and print output.ps. Result OK.
[success]
Evince Print, Print to File to get output.ps. Opened with Evince (rendered OK) and sent for printing. Result OK.
Now use pdftk to extract the 2 pages into a separate file LFSpart.pdf and process that ...
[fail]
Evince Print gives error exactly as above.
LFSpart.pdf attached
It seems that printing a PDF document is the trouble here. Conversion to PostScript (2 ways) solves the problem.
Attachment 296639, "2 pages Evince renders but cannot print":
LFSpart.pdf
Version: 3.4.x