Bug 184841 - spaces from PDF are removed when printing
Summary: spaces from PDF are removed when printing
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2009-02-18 20:41 UTC by Costin Grigoras
Modified: 2009-02-19 07:57 UTC (History)
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How Okular prints the first page of www.mahindraautoworld.com/dimages/mh_pdf_files/1.pdf (137.27 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-02-18 22:10 UTC, Costin Grigoras
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Description Costin Grigoras 2009-02-18 20:41:36 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I've tried printing a few PDF files that are displayed just fine on screen, just to find that all the spaces are removed and verylongstrangelookinglines are printed.

Printing from Acrobat Reader yields the same result as both AR and Okular show on screen, the proper document, spaces included.
Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2009-02-18 21:23:35 UTC
Any sample document showing the issue?
Comment 2 Costin Grigoras 2009-02-18 22:10:00 UTC
Created attachment 31453 [details]
How Okular prints the first page of www.mahindraautoworld.com/dimages/mh_pdf_files/1.pdf
Comment 3 Costin Grigoras 2009-02-18 22:15:17 UTC
Please see the previous attachment. Apparently anything created with this software prints wrongly : www.processtext.com/abctxt.html
Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2009-02-18 22:54:48 UTC
Okular does not display and print PDF documents on its own, but uses an external library called Poppler.

Given the problem is Poppler-specific, you should please report the problem to its bug tracking system, as https://bugs.freedesktop.org, "poppler" product.

Thanks!
Comment 5 Costin Grigoras 2009-02-18 23:06:00 UTC
Ok, I will. But since this bug affects the software you write, it should be you following it.
Comment 6 Brad Hards 2009-02-19 07:57:44 UTC
Costin,

You might like to remember that the okular developers are working on this for free. You should consider that anything you can do to help them is actually in your interest, since they can do other things instead.

You also might like to consider whether telling them to do something for you is really likely to help your next bug report get a good reception, or whether they might like to go out to a movie or for a beer instead of fixing that bug report.

Brad