Ghee -

I am seeing something a bit different than this bug. I get my print jobs 
printing, but the pages are blank. Sending a job to a file produces the 
skeleton of a postscript document without any of the page data.

build snv_75

I'll test on 81 in a few hours and see if it still occurs.

-Wendy

Ghee Teo wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> Let me be the extra memory for Darren, he fixed the bug in
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6631614
> 
> in nevada 79 and beyond.
> 
> 
> -Ghee
> 
> Darren Kenny wrote:
>> Hi Uwe,
>>
>> No you are not alone, some PDF file seem to cause this to happen - and it's 
>> not
>> unique to Evince, ghostscript can also demonstrate this effect too - 
>> essentially
>> it seem to be down to badly generated PDFs and from there it depends on how 
>> the
>> PDF viewer processes it - at printing time it's attempting to generate a
>> PostScript file and this is where it "breaks".
>>
>> If you are seeing such an effect with a document please submit a bug[1] with 
>> the
>> document attached or a pointer to it (if you can share it) so that it can be
>> properly diagnosed - it can be very difficult to track the issue down without
>> the PDF.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Darren.
>>
>> [1] - http://bugs.opensolaris.org/
>>
>> Uwe Dippel wrote:
>>   
>>> Is this only me?
>>>
>>> Here Evince was printing perfectly well on SXDE (nv_70). Now, on nv_78, 
>>> printing is fine from StarOffice, Mozilla, etc., but from Evince it won't. 
>>> It also doesn't preview. I tried a bunch of documents, but always the same:
>>> Clicking 'print' consumes 100% of CPU time, a high disk usage (Gnome applet 
>>> as well as HDD-LED), for minutes without end, even on 2 pages only. Finally 
>>> nothing leaves the printer.
>>>
>>> Closing Evince will remedy the resource (over-)usage immediately.
>>> nv_70 out of the box, everything set to A4.
>>>
>>> Any mistake on my side?
>>>
>>> Uwe
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