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Evince not printing some pages of PDF

📅 2014-Jan-06 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ evince, okular, pdf, printing ⬩ 📚 Archive

Problem

Evince, known as Document Viewer in Ubuntu, is a PDF viewer program. When printing certain PDF files, I notice that Evince does not print some of the pages. For a problematic PDF file, this problem happens with any printer and even with the Print to File option! I am guessing that this problem is the same as the one documented in this bug.

Sometimes, I get this error printed on the last page:

ERROR:
typecheck
OFFENDING COMMAND:
known

Solution

I am guessing that this problem is caused due to a bug in the printing backend, maybe in CUPS. So, I open such PDF file in a PDF viewer with a different backend, like Okular.

Okular can be installed easily:

$ sudo apt install okular

When I print from Okular, the PDF is printed correctly! :)

Tried with: Evince 3.4.0, Okular 0.14.3 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS


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