After investigating, and consulting the Document Structuring Conventions, I concluded that the fault was indeed in psnup. It is fixed in psutils 1.17-21ubuntu1.
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gedit => psutils Binarypackagename: gedit => psutils Assignee: Sebastien Bacher => Ian Jackson Status: Needs Info => Fix Released -- gedit Generic Postscript output is not psnup-friendly https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28311 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs