Launchpad has imported 4 comments from the remote bug at http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695778.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-01-07T17:04:39+00:00 madbiologist wrote: Created attachment 11405 Original djvu file While investgating the problem of evince taking an hour and twenty minutes to print the attached djvu file, it was discovered that if it is printed to a PS file it prints quite quickly, but then using ps2pdf to convert the .ps file to a .pdf file takes 1 hour and 17 minutes. Running the "top" command while the ps2pdf conversion is in progress shows that gs from the ubuntu USER is at the top of the list with 100% use of one of my four CPU cores (single CPU state/separate CPU states can be toggled by pressing "1" while top is running). SHaRed memory was fixed at 3776 KiB, while VIRTual memory size and RESident memory size steadily increased to over 100000 KiB each after 10 minutes and continued to steadily increase to over 200000 KiB before the conversion completed after 1 hour and 17 minutes. Unless I am mistaken, gs is ghostscript.This occurs on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" with ghostscript 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2 and on Ubuntu 14.10 "Vivid Vervet" with ghostscript 9.14~dfsg-0ubuntu4. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/525161/comments/20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-01-07T17:20:24+00:00 madbiologist wrote: The resulting .PS file is too big to attach here, so you will have to generate it using Evince. Some further comments by Till Kamppeter: "Sending the PostScript file directly to a native PostScript printer, for example using the command nc -w1 <IP address of printer> 9100 < Grammar\ 4.ps leads to a printout in a reasonable time (2-3 pages quickly one after each other, then 5 seconds pause, 2-3 pages again and so forth). This means that the PostScript file produced by evince is awkward, but GhostScript is really TOO slow, meaning that there is room for improvement/fixing in Ghostscript. Independent of this, the djvu software used by evince needs improvement, too, first it should generate better, easier to process PostScript, and second it should be able to directly convert djvu into PDF, as PDF is THE standard format for printable documents under all operating systems (please consider reporting an upstream bug here, too." Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/525161/comments/21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-01-07T17:25:48+00:00 Ray Johnston wrote: We need either a PS file or a PDF file. This file type is not supported. If you can't make the PS file you test with available, we will have to close this as INVALID. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/525161/comments/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-01-07T17:39:42+00:00 Till Kamppeter wrote: Created attachment 11406 PostScript file, compressed I am attaching the mentioned PostScript file, bzip2-compressed to be accepted by the server. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/525161/comments/24 ** Changed in: gs-common Status: Unknown => New ** Changed in: gs-common Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525161 Title: sometimes it's never print out any page and hangs on To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gs-common/+bug/525161/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
