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jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

Posts: 274

Trying to print pdf file in Evince or Papers does not work

Whenever I hit CTRL+P in Evince (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince) or papers (https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/), the newly opened window basically crashes. There is no content in it, it stays gray and basically CPU load goes up and the fan starts to increase spin speed.

What _did_ work was using the good old "lp" command, fortunately.

Some data I can think of as relevant right now:

$ pacman -Q evince
evince 1:48.1-1
$ pacman -Q cups
cups 2:2.4.15-1
$ pacman -Q cups-pdf
cups-pdf 3.0.2-1

I am using xfce with all updates, i.e. version 4.20.

Is there a new bug within the software or did I miss some crucial update regarding the configuration/packages?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,271

Re: Trying to print pdf file in Evince or Papers does not work

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310490

jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

Posts: 274

Re: Trying to print pdf file in Evince or Papers does not work

Thank you.
I can confirm downgrading both cups and libcups to version 2:2.4.14-1 re-enables the print window.

walkingstickfan

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Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 114

Re: Trying to print pdf file in Evince or Papers does not work

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nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,476

Re: Trying to print pdf file in Evince or Papers does not work

I'm able to print pdf from xpdf with cups, but not from firefox or brave.  It says it is printing, but it just hangs.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 71,152

Re: Trying to print pdf file in Evince or Papers does not work

The problem affected only the gtk print dialog, but ti's supposed to be fixed w/ the latest cups release - update your system, (restart cups though that should™ not be necessary) and try again (you'll have to restart the browser, though)
Edit: maybe the portal implementation needs a restart. In very doubt, log out and back in.

Last edited by seth (2025-12-04 20:10:28)

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