Bug#613987: lpr prints blank pages
On Sat 25 Oct 2014 at 12:46:48 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Hello,
Hello Francesco, thank you for the report.
> I experience exactly the same bug: I often find PDF files which cannot
> be correctly printed with lpr from cups-bsd (some images and/or parts
> of text are missing in the hardcopy).
To be clear here - we are dealing only with some PDFs which behave like
this and not every PDF? Is it possible to quantify "often" in some way?
> Printing from evince and zathura mysteriously works...
These applications use cairo; a PDF submitted to cups is not the same
PDF submitted by lpr and lp. In fact, lp and lpr send identical PDFs so
a poor output for lpr should also be a poor output for lp. Having a PDF
which produces an unsatisfactory print with both would be useful.
> I experience the bug with a number of different printers, hence I don't
> think it is a hardware-specific issue.
We could do with knowing what printers are used, their PPDs and how they
are connected.
Regards,
Brian.
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