Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Document Viewer 2.30.3
Adobe Reader 9.4
I've been having trouble printing pdf documents in booklet format using a
script called "fp" or "fprint", which takes input from a ps file and uses
postscript utilities to print an A5-sized booklet.
Taking a 4-page pdf file received in an e-mail, I opened it using Adobe
reader, then printed it to a ps file. When I run fprint on this ps file
I get the first page output OK (printed sideways on the first half of an
A4 sheet), but the printout fails with an error on the second half of
the sheet (this is actually the last page of the document, because of
the way the booklet is folded).
To cut a long story short, I've found that printing a pdf file to ps
from Evince and using fprint on the output is successful.
I have confirmed that this is not a freak occurrence related to the file
I received, as I've tried the same thing on the Ubuntu Manual "Getting
Started with Ubuntu 10.04", and got the same result - printout fails
after a couple of pages - and it's also impossible to read the Adobe-
Reader-printed-to-ps version of the manual in Evince; the first four
pages of the manual are presented on the screen, but any subsequent page
is empty, apart from "Loading..." in large grey letters.
To summarise:
1. Download w_ubun01.pdf - which I'm assuming is a properly-formed .pdf file!
2. Open it in Adobe Reader 9.
3. Print it to (e.g.) temp.ps.
4. Open temp.ps with Evince.
Reading this again, it looks to me as though the problem might be in
Adobe Reader!
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Evince can't read a file "printed" to ps by Adobe Reader
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678337
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