Description:
When trying to print a PDF document with "evince" sometimes a dialog appears
with the message
"Failed to print document
Too many attempts"
and the document doesn't print any page at all.
While the messages "Printing job...", "Printing page..." and
"Finishing..." are displayed at the top of the page, the evince process
consumes most CPU cycles.
The bug doesn't show a consistent behavior in that sometimes the entire
document may print fine, and other times it may fail to print a single
page.
The bug occurred with many different PDF documents, being 5 to 20 pages
long, and 200 kB to 3 MB in size, but it also shows with smaller
documents.
These PDFs were generated with LaTeX:
bug_evince_print_CMSS12_Type1.pdf (13 KB)
bug_evince_print_NimbusSansL-Regu_Type1 (14.1 KB)
bug_evince_print_Noname_Type3.pdf (17.9 KB)
With PDFs having Type 1 fonts it doesn't seem to fail.
With the other one it took half a minute and sometimes it would print,
and sometimes it would display the "Failed to print document" dialog.
The System Monitor shows heavy usage of "gs" (ghostscript) in this
instance.
The "Manage Print Jobs" application in Applications > Accessories shows
that those jobs with Type 1 fonts have a size comparable with the actual
file size, that is, with the example documents provided, they are around
35 kB. With the Type 3 document the size was 4024 kB. Other documents I
printed showed jobs as big as 8450 kB.
I encountered this bug only while printing from "evince".
I tried printing from "okular", and it never gave any problem.
My printer: HP Laser Jet 1015
Ubuntu 9.04
texlive: 2007.dfsg.1-5
evince: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
okular: 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2
** Attachment added: "bug_evince_print_CMSS12_Type1.pdf"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27566056/bug_evince_print_CMSS12_Type1.pdf
** Attachment added: "bug_evince_print_NimbusSansL-Regu_Type1.pdf"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27566058/bug_evince_print_NimbusSansL-Regu_Type1.pdf
** Attachment added: "bug_evince_print_Noname_Type3.pdf"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27566059/bug_evince_print_Noname_Type3.pdf
** Attachment added: "bug_evince_print.tex"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27566060/bug_evince_print.tex
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Failed to print document / Too many failed attempts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364275
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