Bug 127627

Summary:	kpdf sometimes producing bad postscript when printing.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kpdf	Reporter:	Mark Davies <mark>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Albert Astals Cid <aacid>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	NetBSD pkgsrc
OS:	NetBSD
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	problem PDF file

Description Mark Davies 2006-05-18 23:57:38 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    NetBSD pkgsrc
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.3 
OS:                NetBSD

If kpdf tries to print (the first page) of the pdf found at
http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~mark/gempi.pdf it produces postscript that our HP printers and ghostscript both object to.  Specifically its handling of the ligatures.  Acroread prints the file with no problems.

Repeat by:
View the above document in KPDF. Select "Print to File (Postscript)" and just select printing of page 1.  Try to view the produced postscript with kghostview (or other ghostscript based viewer).

Comment 1 Dik Takken 2006-11-04 21:21:21 UTC

I also have a PDF file (Acrobat Destiller generated) that results in invalid Postscript. I will attach the file below.

I don't know if KPDF or Poppler causes the problem. Please forward the file to the appropriate authorities please. :)

Comment 2 Dik Takken 2006-11-04 21:22:43 UTC

Oh, I forgot: I use KDE 3.5.4, poppler-0.5.4, ghostscript-esp-8.15.3.

Comment 3 Dik Takken 2006-11-04 21:25:04 UTC

Created attachment 18406 [details]
problem PDF file

Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2006-11-05 14:52:52 UTC

Dik, I guess you're using Gentoo or (k)ubuntu, so please recompile KPDFF without the poppler patch, and tell us if the problem is still there.

Comment 5 Mark Davies 2006-11-17 01:26:14 UTC

Trying my problem pdf file again with KDE 3.5.5 and the latest poppler - it now works so I'm happy for this bug to be resolved.

Comment 6 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-15 20:37:46 UTC

Closing this bug, since reporter says in comment 5 it is fixed now...