Bug 330019

Summary: Print preview shows empty pages
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Ulf Michel <u.michel>
Component: PDF backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: aacid, lueck
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.17.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
URL: ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle/doc/elsdoc.pdf
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Description Ulf Michel 2014-01-16 10:31:05 UTC 
file > "print preview" (translated from German) displays an okular icon in the upper left corner of each page but nothing else.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download above file
2. Open file with okular
3. preview file
Actual Results:  
okular icon in the upper left corner of each page but nothing else.

Expected Results:  
Page content displayed

The error occurs with many but not all pdf files.
I use evince as a work around.
Comment 1 Burkhard Lück 2014-01-16 22:00:18 UTC 
works for me with:
Okular: 0.18.0 in Kubuntu 12.04 KDE 4.12.0
Compiled from sources in stable: Okular: 0.18.1 with KDE: 4.12.1
Compiled from sources in master Okular: 0.18.60 with KDE Development Platform:
4.12.60
All using Qt: 4.8.2 + poppler 0.18.4
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2014-01-16 22:05:37 UTC 
Which ghostscript are you using?
Comment 3 Burkhard Lück 2014-01-16 22:18:49 UTC 
$ ghostscript --version
9.05
Comment 4 Ulf Michel 2014-01-17 07:59:30 UTC 
9.07
Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2014-01-17 08:05:07 UTC 
gs 9.07 is borked http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2013/05/gs-907-cant-render-ps-files-on-comma.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 316169 ***
Comment 6 Ulf Michel 2014-01-17 08:32:58 UTC 
Installation of
ghostscript 9.10-1.1 (found in http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ghostscript)
solved the problem
Thank you!