xdpf displays text badly when compiled with app-text/poppler-0.6. Everything is much bolder. It looks like xpdf renders text bolder, then it makes it normal (bold text flashes for 0,5 sec.) (without 'continous view'). With 'continuos view', first few pages are OK, then everything becomes bold. Downgrading poppler to 0.5.4-r2 and rebuilding xpdf solves this problem. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 132640 [details] xdf with poppler-0.6
Created attachment 132641 [details] xdf with poppler-0.5.4-r2
Created attachment 132642 [details] emerge --info
Even worse here. xpdf-3.01-r8 with poppler-0.6.1 I cannot print anymore - even on a printer with genuine Adobe postscript level 3 builtin. When I 'print" to a file, I cannot view that postscript file with gv or gsview, so I assume it produces invalid postscript.
Created attachment 135967 [details] Correctly rendered ps file
Created attachment 135969 [details] Correctly rendered pdf file
Created attachment 135970 [details] Broken ps file from foo.pdf and xpdf/poppler
(In reply to comment #4) > Even worse here. xpdf-3.01-r8 with poppler-0.6.1 I cannot print anymore - > even on a printer with genuine Adobe postscript level 3 builtin. > > When I 'print" to a file, I cannot view that postscript file with gv or > gsview, so I assume it produces invalid postscript. I get the same result. I used oowriter to create a simple text doc, used print-to-file to generate "foo.ps", export-to-pdf to generate "foo.pdf", and I used xpdf's print-to-file to generate "foo2.ps" (all attached). The "foo2.ps" file generated from xpdf (and presumably poppler) is broken--it fails to render in gv and it fails to print. Downgrading poppler and rebuilding xpdf works, but is far from optimal. For whatever it's worth, evince is similarly broken with the current poppler. Printing or print-to-file from acroread works just fine. # paludis -ip poppler These packages will be installed: * app-text/poppler-0.6.2 {:0} [R] -cjk jpeg zlib # paludis -ip xpdf These packages will be installed: * app-text/xpdf-3.01-r8 {:0} [R] -nodrm linguas: -ar -el -he -ja -ko -la -ru -th -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW # paludis -ip cups These packages will be installed: * net-print/cups-1.3.4-r2 {:0} [R] X -acl -avahi -dbus -java jpeg -kerberos -ldap nls pam perl -php png ppds python -samba -slp ssl -static -tiff -zeroconf linguas: -de en -es -et -fr -he -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW <app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.4:0::installed, net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20070501:0::installed, 1 more> # paludis --info paludis@1195057191: [WARNING] Safe resume support is now enabled by default; there is no need to pass --safe-resume paludis 0.26.0_alpha3 Paludis build information: Compiler: CXX: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2) CXXFLAGS: -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -ggdb LDFLAGS: DATE: 2007-11-05T13:26:20-0600 Libraries: C++ Library: GNU libstdc++ 20070214 Reduced Privs: reduced_uid: 108 reduced_uid->name: paludisbuild reduced_uid->dir: /dev/null reduced_gid: 414 reduced_gid->name: paludisbuild Paths: DATADIR: /usr/share LIBDIR: /usr/lib LIBEXECDIR: /usr/libexec SYSCONFDIR: /etc PYTHONINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages RUBYINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux Repository virtuals: Configuration information: format: virtuals Repository installed-virtuals: Configuration information: format: installed_virtuals Repository gentoo: Configuration information: append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /usr/portage/metadata/cache distdir: /usr/portage/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass entry_format: ebuild format: ebuild ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional location: /usr/portage names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/.cache/gentoo-names newsdir: /usr/portage/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 securitydir: /usr/portage/metadata/glsa setsdir: /usr/portage/sets sync: rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/ sync_options: write_cache: /var/empty Package information: app-admin/eselect-compiler: (none) app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4, 2.5.1-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: (none) dev-util/confcache: (none) sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r1 Repository installed: Configuration information: builddir: /var/tmp/paludis format: vdb location: /var/db/pkg names_cache: /var/cache/paludis/.cache/installed-names provides_cache: /var/cache/paludis/.cache/installed-provides root: / world: /var/db/pkg/world Repository local_overlay: Configuration information: append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /usr/portage/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass entry_format: ebuild format: ebuild ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional location: /usr/local/portage names_cache: /var/empty newsdir: /usr/local/portage/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 securitydir: /usr/local/portage/metadata/glsa setsdir: /usr/local/portage/sets sync: sync_options: write_cache: /var/empty Repository x-mabi: Configuration information: append_repository_name_to_write_cache: true builddir: /var/tmp/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /usr/portage/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass entry_format: ebuild format: ebuild ignore_deprecated_profiles: false layout: traditional location: /usr/portage/local/layman/mabi names_cache: /var/empty newsdir: /usr/portage/local/layman/mabi/metadata/news profile_eapi: 0 profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 securitydir: /usr/portage/local/layman/mabi/metadata/glsa setsdir: /usr/portage/local/layman/mabi/sets sync: sync_options: write_cache: /var/empty
Another aside: "lpr foo.pdf" also seems to work fine for printing. With cups the pdftops and pstops filters are used instead of poppler, from what I can tell.
xpdf-3.02 doesn't have issues I mentioned, but I can't tell anything about problems with printing.
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