It's claimed here that the bug is in evince, but I don't actually see
the evidence. The "bad" PDFs produced by evince display render perfectly
in evince, xpdf, and gs; the output of pstopdf on those files also
renders perfectly in evince and gs. It's just the printer that is
complaining.

It seems to me that *if* the PDF/PS files evince is generating are
legal, and just happen to trigger a printer bug, then it's really cups'
job to work around that printer bug, not evince's to somehow intuit what
sort of printer the file will eventually be sent to after being passed
through some set of filters they have no control over.

Of course, it maybe be that evince/xpdf/gs are in just lenient when
displaying stuff, and evince is actually generating buggy PDF/PS, in
which case it should be fixed. But to make that argument surely we need
someone to actually look at the postscript spec and figure things out.

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Printing from evince (and perhaps other GTK apps) to PostScript printers is 
broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419143
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