Hi all, 2015-02-03 2:52 GMT+01:00 Chris Kuehl <cku...@ocf.berkeley.edu>:
> Hi all, > > Just wanted to provide some additional context on this bug. > > The current version of evince in jessie/sid will not print landscape > PDFs (at least, none that I've tried). Instead, the pages print blank. > > It's possible to print the pages by un-checking ``Auto-rotate and > center'' (which is checked by default), but as expected, the page will > be oriented and positioned incorrectly, making the print basically > unusable. I haven't found a way to workaround the bug without resorting > to something like Okular or command-line tools. > > An evince developer (Carlos Garcia Campos) states on 2015-01-28 in the > upstream bug [1] [2] [3]: > > Having a proper fix for this is taking more time than I expected, so > > I've just reverted the patch that introduced this regression in both > > branches until we find a proper solution in both Evince and GTK+. This > > is now fixed, use bug #734788 for new discussions or patches to the > > centering option when having a manual scale. > There is also a Fedora bug report [4], where the maintainer reverted the > commit which caused it. > > So, it seems the best step forward is to follow upstream and Fedora, and > revert this commit. I've attached a debdiff which reverts it, and tested > it in our busy computer lab for the past few days successfully. > > Is there any opposition to marking this bug as release-critical? I know > it's late in the freeze, but I think PDF printing using the default PDF > viewer on the default DE with the default settings should not be broken > in jessie, especially since we have an easy fix by reverting the commit > which caused it. I'm not sure the current severity is appropriate? > > I create another bug report [1] since there a more gtk applications affected and set it to "grave". But it was drop down to "important" and not release critical [2]. As you write I think it is not a good idea to have a broken landscape printout with the default DE and Viewer in Debian Jessie. Samuel [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771205 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771205#21 > I'm happy to help with additional testing. > > Many thanks, > Chris > > P.S. An easy way to test is to install `printer-driver-cups-pdf`, which > will show the behavior. ``Print to PDF'' in Evince seems to not. There > is a PDF attached to Samuel's first email in this thread which can be > used as a test case. > > > [1] Upstream bug report > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739723 > > [2] Upstream revert commit: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=69b474fce1a87a0839e1f541f1297492e47c7c31 > > [3] Commit which was blamed and reverted by upstream and Fedora: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=ae7a5715131613955a37419b5da1d6d9f3c1cb1d > > [4] Fedora bug report: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=69b474fce1a87a0839e1f541f1297492e47c7c31 >
