This bug is still present in current Precise. I can reproduce it using Firefox.
There are no instructions how to instruct Firefox to use poppler instead of gs, and the upstream gs authors simply closed the bug invalid without a reason... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817049 Title: gs renders images as black boxes when generating PDF files Status in GS-GPL - GPL Ghostscript: Invalid Status in “acroread” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “ghostscript” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Hi, I just noticed that for several days my cupspdf printer driver (generating PDF files in the home directory as a special printer) generated broken PDF files when printing from firefox to cupspdf. Debugging and breaking it down into its processing steps showed that firefox itself generates a PDF files and sends it to the cupspdf printer, which then runs something like (filenames replaced for debugging tests) pdftops -level2 -origpagesizes x.pdf y.ps /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops 619 hadmut test 1 finishings=3 < y.ps > z.ps /usr/bin/gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=a.pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f z.ps The first and the second step work, the generated postscript file (y.ps in this example) is correct (i.e. ghostview shows it correctly, I did not check it's internals). But then gs generates a broken pdf. Just try a /usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=a.pdf -f z.ps with the attached z.ps as an example. I'll attach both z.ps and a.pdf. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: ghostscript 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jul 27 17:13:18 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1) Lpstat: device for Deskjet-F2100-series: hp:/usb/Deskjet_F2100_series?serial=CN7CK4T2NP04TK device for HP-LaserJet-1300: socket://192.168.160.1:9100 device for hp-LaserJet-1320-series: hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_1320_series?serial=00CNM1G08790 device for Laser: ///dev/null device for PDF: cups-pdf:/ MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA78G-DS3H Papersize: a4 PpdFiles: PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer HP-LaserJet-1300: HP LaserJet 1300 Series Postscript (recommended) hp-LaserJet-1320-series: HP LaserJet 1320 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended) Deskjet-F2100-series: HP Deskjet f2100 Series hpijs, 3.10.6 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/tcsh ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/raid2-ubuntu64 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: ghostscript UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-17 (70 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 04/03/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: F2 dmi.board.name: GA-MA78G-DS3H dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd04/03/2008:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA78G-DS3H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA78G-DS3H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: GA-MA78G-DS3H dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gs-gpl/+bug/817049/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp