I have the same problem (can't print in evince - printing works fine
everywhere else). Printing in evince used to work fine in ubuntu Dapper.
It stopped working when upgrading to Edgy. I hoped Feisty would solve
the bug, but it is still there.
evince will show this message when selecting the print
I did an strace on evince while trying to print.
The error "** (evince:24793): WARNING **: Error result: HTTP Error in GET
Success" is obtained when trying to open:
http://localhost:631/printers/Queue.ppd
which gives a 404 Not Found error
http://localhost:631/printers/Queue exists: it shows my p
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370685
Comment #4 from Johan Brannlund (reporter, points: 5)
2007-02-26 01:14 UTC
Pete McCormick figured out where the problem lies. In the function
cups_request_ppd_cb in modules/printbackends/cups/gtkprintbackendcups.c,
there's a check for a PPD file