Thank you, Kuroshima, for reporting this. I have struggled with this bug on Ubuntu 10.10 and 12.04. I didn't report it myself because my problematic PDFs are copyrighted. However, I am attaching a screenshot of Evince's screen display (left) and Evince's print preview (right).
This sounds like a very old Ghostscript bug (http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691760) but I ran the test documented there and it worked fine, so I think it's unrelated. My work-around was to print via Xpdf, which was awkward but worked. However, now Xpdf is completely broken (bug #943195) and I am without a way to print my maps at all. ** Bug watch added: Ghostscript (AFPL) Bugzilla #691760 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691760 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794142 Title: Printing PDFs with some greyscale images results in the images appearing as negatives Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: evince Some PDFs, such as http://e23.sjgames.com/media/SJG31-1003_preview.pdf (attached, just in case the file is changed) that feature greyscale images. This only affects greyscale images, not color images (such as the cover, p.1) not text, nor vector images. I don't have the tools to see what format the images were encoded in, though. Printing through the non-free Acrobat Reader works perfectly. Version information: lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1 Candidate: 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1 apt-cache policy ghostscript ghostscript: Installed: 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5 Candidate: 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Jun 7 17:56:41 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7 SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-02 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/794142/+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
