Bugzilla Bug 126705

I know, I am stating multiple problems but I am doing this on purpose since
they are all most probably linked to poppler issues. The above URL points to
the bug I opened on bugs.kde.org and was rightfully closed. Here are the jists
of it:

- kpdf prints pages alternating the orientation 180 degree between each pages
(no duplexing enabled on the printer). Apart from being very annoying, it makes
manual page duplexing impossible (ODD the EVEN page printing). This problem is
present in all page range/selection settings.
- Print preview doesn't work and gives a correct number of blank pages
- Printing to PS also generates invalid PS files
- This problem is present with all PDF files.

Additionnal info:
I tried with both 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 poppler poppler-bindings (rebuilding kpdf in
both cases). I also rebuilt kghostview just in case it was also dependent of
these libs with no further success.

Enabled USE flags in both cases:
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/poppler-0.5.1  USE="jpeg"
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.5.1  USE="cairo gtk qt"

kyron@kyron ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1_pre6-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.15-ck7_KyRoN i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-ck7_KyRoN i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.91.0.3, 2.16.91.0.4, 2.16.91.0.5, 2.16.91.0.6
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer
sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/sci"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acl adns alsa apache2 asf asterisk audiofile avi
bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr
cgi ck-server clanJavaScript clanVoice cli crypt ctype cups curl dba dbus dga
divx4linux dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl emboss encode esd expat f2c fastbuild
ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gcj gd ggi gif
gimp gimpprint ginac gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hdf5 iconv imagemagick imap
imlib imlib2 ithreads jack java javascript jikes jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kde
kdeenablefinal kdepim kdexdeltas kerberos ldap libcaca ltsp lzo mad maildir
math matroska matrox mbrola md5sum memlimit mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mmxext
mozcalendar mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer mpm-worker msn mysql mysqli mythtv nas
ncurses netboot network nis nls nntp no-htdocs no-old-linux no-suexec noplugin
nptl nvidia offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pbs pbsserver
pcre pda pdf pdflib perl php pic pie plotutils png posix povray ppds pthreads
python qhull qt quicktime quotas readline samba sasl savedconfig scanner sdl
server session sndfile soap socket sox spell sse sse2 ssl stroke svg svga tcltk
tcpd tga theora threads tiff tokenizer transcode truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode usb usepackagedmakefiles user-homedirs userlocales utf8 v4l
v4l2 vcd vcdimager vhosts vidix vim-pager vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wmf
wxwindows xanim xchattext xine xinerama xml xmms xprint xsl xv xvid yahoo yv12
zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_fr userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

I think it is some odd package on your end. You should not mix x86 and ~x86
packages. Please try upgrading your system to ~x86:

echo 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"' >> /etc/make.conf
emerge -uvaD world

then rebuild the affected packages:
emerge -va1 poppler poppler-bindings kpdf

I can tell you that printing preview works on my system so this is most likely
an issue on your side.

related to 125430?

cannot see a relation .. here -Os is not used as on the other bug.

Anyway, please reopen if you still see this. We cannot help for unreproduceable
bugs where the reporter is unresponsible

emerge -va1 poppler poppler-bindings kpdf
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/poppler-0.5.1  USE="jpeg"
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.5.1  USE="cairo qt -gtk"
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kpdf-3.5.2  USE="arts kdeenablefinal xinerama -debug
-kdexdeltas"

I did that, previewing and printing of pdf files still does not work with kpdf.
These same pdf files do preview fine in kghostview.

System is current ~x86 as of 12 hours ago except for gcc-3.4.6* is masked.
revdep-rebuild is clean

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1_pre7-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3,
2.6.16-ck1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-ck1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distcc distlocks
metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage_packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X aac acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid asf audiofile avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli crypt
css ctype cups curl dba dbus dga dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr emboss encode exif
expat fastbuild ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd
gdbm geoip ggi gif gphoto2 gpm gtk2 hal idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib
jabber java jpeg kcal kde kdeenablefinal kipi kqemu lcms libg++ libwww lirc
logitech-mouse mad memlimit mikmod mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg mplayer musicbrainz
ncurses nls nomotif nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openexr opengl pam
pcre pdflib perl png posix ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real
samba scanner sdl session simplexml slp soap sockets softmmu speex spell spl
sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd theora tidy tiff tokenizer
truetype truetype-fonts tscd type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2
vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xprint xsl xv xvid yv12 zeroconf
zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_none video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LINGUAS

ok, that was not the reason, maybe it is CFLAGS or compiler version. Please try
with CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" and rebuild those 3
packages
Alos gcc4 might be useful, but I really doubt that could be the cause. I do not
see it on any pdf here ..

Tried this
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" emerge -va1 poppler
poppler-bindings kpdf

Same results.

I tested on a different box, I don't have kghostview installed so I get an
error.
"Preview failed: neither the internal KDE PostScript viewer (KGhostView) or any
other external PostScript viewer could not be found"

So I installed kghostview there and the preview window comes up but it's blank
like the other boxes.

what ghostscript are you using? I am begining to believe that this is not a
kpdf problem.

app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1  USE="X cjk cups xml% -emacs -gtk -threads"

I'm unmerging this now and emerging ghostscript-gnu since my discovery of
multiple versions and implementations of ghostscript along with a little
research makes me think this is the entire problem. I'll report back in a bit.

Emerging ghostscript-gnu seems to have solved the problem with
previewing/printing with kpdf. I also notice that prior to ghostscript-esp I
just had plain ghostscript so I'm not sure what forced or made the choice of
the esp version and emerge world doesn't show any dep issues by using the gnu
version.

Here  doesn't print anything and does blank print preview , I tried unmerging
ghostview-esp and emergeing ghostview-gnu.

Now, non-landscape pdfs seem to be previewed and printed fine, still landscape
pdfs are cusing issues,during a print preview, I got:

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

Major opcode of failed request:  73
 (X_GetImage)

Serial number of failed request:  80648

Oh, I was forgotting: also, ghostscript-gnu uses souces of cups-1.1.20 to
compile
instead that the current cups-1.1.23-r1/4/7 .

I have no clue yet, why gs-esp is causing this :(

It works fine with gs-gnu and gs-afpl. They are interchangeable, you can use
either of them if you like.

*** Bug 128751 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

For me, the kpdf print preview seems incompatible (ie: appears blank) with the
following ghostscript-esp versions:

app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1
app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1-r1

I see nothing special printed in the console.
But it *does* work with the following version:

app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r10

If I downgrade to non-poppler kpdf 3.5.1, it always works, regardless of
ghostscript-esp version.

I have talked to ubuntu, the other distribution using the kpdf-poppler
integration patch - they have the same problem. For the moment the suggested
workaround is to use ghostscript-gnu

When emerging ghostscript-gnu instead of ghostscript-esp, using kpdf I get the
following message upon print preview:

An error occured in rendering.
Exited with error code 1.
GNU Ghostscript 
8.16
: 
Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps.

I'm sorry, I have no logs for this, but ghostscript-esp cannot render
postscripts created by pdftops (part of poppler), as some ghostscript errors
occur.

I already switched to ghostscript-gpl so I cannot show an error message, the
only line I have saved is:

-----------
/configurationerror in --setpagedevice
-----------

NOTE: This bug affects much more than kpdf print preview. Its also impossible
to view postscript-files created from pdfs by pdftops and maybe also other
postscript-files.

I can confirm this bug: can't print pdfs and printpreview doesn't work.

~ # emerge -pv ghostscript-esp poppler poppler-bindings kpdf

[ebuild   R   ] app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1-r1  USE="X cups xml -cjk -emacs
-gtk -threads" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/poppler-0.5.1-r1  USE="jpeg" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.5.1-r1  USE="qt -cairo -gtk -qt4" 0
kB
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kpdf-3.5.2  USE="arts kdeenablefinal xinerama -debug"
0 kB

~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1_pre9-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.16-suspend2-r4-April24th i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r4-April24th i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor
1.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="/home/distfiles
http://ftp.rz.tu-bs.de/pub/mirror/ftp.gentoo.org/gentoo
ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.rz.tu-bs.de/pub/mirror/ftp.gentoo.org/gentoo-distfiles
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr
cli crypt cups dri dvd dvdr emboss encode exif foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif
gphoto2 gpm imap imlib isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ libwww
mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre
pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sasl scanner
sdl session spell spl sqlite sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xinerama xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_i810"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

I tried to downgrade to the last "non-poppler" version of kpdf (3.5.1-r1) but
it is not in portage anymore. I think it would be a good idea to have an
version of kpdf with the "original" xpdf code in the tree until the problem
with poppler is sorted out. A pdf application without the possibility to print
is a no-go for me. Although the problem seems to be in the patched kpdf rather
then in ghostscript-*. I wish there is a good coordination about the
poppler-patches with upstream kpdf devels to solve the problems. I recently
read a blog where a kpdf guy stated he is not so lucky about all the distros
heavily patching the internals of kpdf (although I think the "poppler-way" is a
good thing [TM]).

Regards
Sero  

Here is what would be the best "workaround" to prevent people with a pretty
standard installation from getting the printing issue.

* Do a kpdf-3.5.2-r1 that DOES NOT have the poppler patch but uses internal
xpdf code instead (I tried to adjust the ebuild by myself but I got an error
about kde-base/kpdf not beeing in the KDE_DERIVATION_MAP. I leck the
kde-split-ebuild knowledge to do the task). Put this ebuild in portage (~x86).

* Do a kpdf-3.5.2-r2 that is identical to the current ebuild with poppler-patch
but add a warning message when this is build against ghostscript-esp. (I don't
know if it is possible to not depend on virtual/ghostscript but one of
ghostscript-gnu or ghostscript-afpl. This would be the best way).

* Remove kpdf-3.5.2 from the tree.

* Hope that the poppler printing issues are solved soon.

Thanks in advance!   

This is not viable, you're suggested to use ghostscript-gnu instead of -esp.

The reason we don't use xpdf code is because of security concern, we're not
really keen on going applying patches every two weeks as it often happen with
xpdf (found one issue, you can be sure there will be three other
vulnerabilities waiting :/).

But even ghostscript-gnu does not fix all the problems (print preview for pdf
files). Furthermore I use a x86 ghostscript-esp version and *-esp is known to
have the best support for different printers (many of them missing in *-gnu as
far as I know). ghostscript-esp is working fine. Now I should change to
ghostscript-gnu (which might cause new problems) only because an app that
relies on ghostscript was patched downstream and doesn't work anymore with ALL
possible virtual/ghostscripts? This is not a solution. I agree that the xpdf
code had many securetty issues in the past(and will have in the feature). But
as long as the patched poppler version doesn't work, I see no other workaround.
At least there are no know securetty issues atm in xpdf code. It doesn't help
if an app is saver but doesn't perform basic tasks anymore.

I think it's time for some brainstorming. I just wrote down what I (!) though
would be a quick temporary solution. Maybe the better way to go is to fix the
poppler-patches in some way, don't know. My proposal consists of two ebuilds,
so I didn't want to role back all the poppler-development, but give the user
the chance to install an older ebuild to get kpdf printing working again. For
kpdf-3.4.x there are older ebuild that use xpdf, too. So please make this
possible for the 3.5.x croud as well.  

There are other unfixed bugs in ghostscript-esp that justify switching to
ghostscript-gnu, just search for ghostscript-esp in bugzilla.

Also there is ghostscript-afpl if you have an unsupported printer.

Sebastian, have you tried to downgrade ghostscript-esp as I suggest in comment
#14 ?

Really, downgrading ghostscript-esp finally solved the problem for me.

today I tried gs-esps cvs in combination with the ubuntu patches and discovered
that the bug disappeared :)

wait one hour and sync to get ghostscript-esp-8.15.1_p20060430.ebuild which
fixes the issue.

Thank you all!

Ah, at last, *this* new ghostscript-esp works great !

Thanks a bunch :-)