[gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:

Error printing - Operation not supported


-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Alan McKinnon]

On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
> 
> Error printing - Operation not supported
> 
> 


well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[tastytea]

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Am Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:02 -0600
schrieb Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:

> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
> 
> Error printing - Operation not supported
> 
> 

You can use File -> Sove a Copy...

-- 
tastytea

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Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>
>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>
>>
>
>
>well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>
>
>-- 
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so what did it change?
Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 17:05, tastytea wrote:
>Am Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:02 -0600
>schrieb Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:
>
>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>
>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>
>>
>
>You can use File -> Sove a Copy...

This doesn't help me, as there are times where I want to print one or two pages from pdf document to another pdf file, so "Save a Copy" will not do it.



-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Randolph Maaßen]

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2013/4/17 Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>

> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>
>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>
>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alan McKinnon
>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>
>
> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so what
> did it change?
> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>
> --
> Joseph
>
>
So what packages have been updated/changed, what does your printing system
look like, ...
Without some information nobody can help you.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Randolph Maaßen

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Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Joseph.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:32:23AM -0600, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 17:05, tastytea wrote:
> >Am Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:02 -0600
> >schrieb Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:

> >> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:

> >> Error printing - Operation not supported



> >You can use File -> Sove a Copy...

> This doesn't help me, as there are times where I want to print one or two pages from pdf document to another pdf file, so "Save a Copy" will not do it.

For what it's worth, my evince (2.32.0-r4) prints without problems.
Could it be you're missing some critical use flag?  Try dumping these out
with

# emerge -pv evince

.

> -- 
> Joseph

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

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On 17/04/13 17:30, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>> 
>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf
>> printing.....
>> 
>> 
>> -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> 
> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading,
> so what did it change? Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf
> printing?
> 
So basically you're asking ?what changed on my system??. Not really
something anyone can help with unless you post some information.

- -- 
Mateusz K.
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Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 17:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>Hi, Joseph.
>
>On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:32:23AM -0600, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 17:05, tastytea wrote:
>> >Am Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:02 -0600
>> >schrieb Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:
>
>> >> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>
>> >> Error printing - Operation not supported
>
>
>
>> >You can use File -> Sove a Copy...
>
>> This doesn't help me, as there are times where I want to print one or two pages from pdf document to another pdf file, so "Save a Copy" will not do it.
>
>For what it's worth, my evince (2.32.0-r4) prints without problems.
>Could it be you're missing some critical use flag?  Try dumping these out
>with
>
># emerge -pv evince

I have the same verion,
app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4  USE="dbus introspection postscript tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -gnome -gnome-keyring -nautilus -t1lib" 0 kB

I can print to printer but not to pdf or ps files.


-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 18:45, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
>   2013/4/17 Joseph <[1]syscon780@gmail.com>
>
>   On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>     On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>
>     When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>     Error printing - Operation not supported
>
>     well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>     --
>     Alan McKinnon
>     [2]alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>     Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>     what did it change?
>     Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>     --
>     Joseph
>
>   So what packages have been updated/changed, what does your printing
>   system look like, ...
>   Without some information nobody can help you.
>   --
>   Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>
>   Randolph Maaßen

I'm using standard cups printing system.
It is hard to find out which package are responsible for it, I usually upgrade very second month so bunch of them got upgraded I did not get any error messages. 
It is like looking for a needle in a haystack :-/

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 18:09, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>On 17/04/13 17:30, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>> 
>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf
>>> printing.....
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>> 
>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading,
>> so what did it change? Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf
>> printing?
>> 
>So basically you're asking ?what changed on my system??. Not really
>something anyone can help with unless you post some information.
>
>-- 
>Mateusz K.

I'm not really sure what should I provide you folks with :-/
or where to start looking for the problem. 

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Randolph Maaßen]

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On Apr 17, 2013 7:19 PM, "Joseph" <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/17/13 18:45, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
>>
>>   2013/4/17 Joseph <[1]syscon780@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>   On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>     On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>
>>     When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>     Error printing - Operation not supported
>>
>>     well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>     --
>>     Alan McKinnon
>>     [2]alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>     Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>>     what did it change?
>>     Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>>     --
>>     Joseph
>>
>>   So what packages have been updated/changed, what does your printing
>>   system look like, ...
>>   Without some information nobody can help you.
>>   --
>>   Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>>
>>   Randolph Maaßen
>
>
> I'm using standard cups printing system.
> It is hard to find out which package are responsible for it, I usually
upgrade very second month so bunch of them got upgraded I did not get any
error messages. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack :-/
>
> --
> Joseph
>

Ok, so I would try running revdep-rebuild, to ensure that upgrading didn't
break any abi. This happened to me some time ago.

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Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 19:24, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
>   >>     Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before
>   upgrading, so
>   >>     what did it change?
>   >>     Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>   >>     --
>   >>     Joseph
>   >>
>   >>   So what packages have been updated/changed, what does your
>   printing
>   >>   system look like, ...
>   >>   Without some information nobody can help you.
>   >>   --
>   >>   Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>   >>
>   >>   Randolph Maaßen
>   >
>   >
>   > I'm using standard cups printing system.
>   > It is hard to find out which package are responsible for it, I
>   usually upgrade very second month so bunch of them got upgraded I did
>   not get any error messages. It is like looking for a needle in a
>   haystack :-/
>   >
>   > --
>   > Joseph
>   >
>
>   Ok, so I would try running revdep-rebuild, to ensure that upgrading
>   didn't break any abi. This happened to me some time ago.

I know I have been holding to xpdf and old poppler but I've got rid of xpdf and upgraded poppler to the current one.
run: revdep-rebuild 
texlive was rebuild 
I've re-emerged evince 

but I'm still getting the same error with "evince": Error printing - Operation not supported when trying to print to pdf file :-/

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Alan McKinnon]

On 17/04/2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>
>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan McKinnon
>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> 
> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
> what did it change?
> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
> 

I have absolutely no idea - only one of us can look at your computer
screen and run debugging commands, and it isn't me.

If you want help on this list, it's traditional to supply up front
relevant information that will let people help you. You left this step out.



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wed, April 17, 2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>
>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>
>>
>>--
>>Alan McKinnon
>>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so what
> did it change?
> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?

Can you print to PDF from another program?
Do you have "net-print/cups-pdf" installed?
Can you recreate the PDF-printer in the cups configuration?

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 21:55, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>On Wed, April 17, 2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>
>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Alan McKinnon
>>>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>
>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so what
>> did it change?
>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>
>Can you print to PDF from another program?
>Do you have "net-print/cups-pdf" installed?
>Can you recreate the PDF-printer in the cups configuration?
>
>--
>Joost

Yes, I have net-print/cups-pdf installed.
The strange part is that on one of my AMD64 system I logged in via ssh and I could print to from "evince" to pdf file and after running "python-updater" I am getting 
the same error:  Error printing - Operation not supported

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wed, April 17, 2013 22:07, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 21:55, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>On Wed, April 17, 2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>>
>>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Alan McKinnon
>>>>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>>> what
>>> did it change?
>>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>>
>>Can you print to PDF from another program?
>>Do you have "net-print/cups-pdf" installed?
>>Can you recreate the PDF-printer in the cups configuration?
>>
>>--
>>Joost
>
> Yes, I have net-print/cups-pdf installed.
> The strange part is that on one of my AMD64 system I logged in via ssh and
> I could print to from "evince" to pdf file and after running
> "python-updater" I am getting
> the same error:  Error printing - Operation not supported

What did python-updater update?

--
Joost Roeleveld

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 21:31, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 17/04/2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>
>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alan McKinnon
>>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>
>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>> what did it change?
>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>>
>
>I have absolutely no idea - only one of us can look at your computer
>screen and run debugging commands, and it isn't me.
>
>If you want help on this list, it's traditional to supply up front
>relevant information that will let people help you. You left this step out.
>
>
>
>-- 
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

OK, I'm getting somewhere.
After starting "evince" from command line I can print to pdf file; but only when starting it from a desktop I'm getting this error.
  Error printing - Operation not supported

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Alan McKinnon]

On 17/04/2013 22:14, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 21:31, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 17/04/2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>> On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>>
>>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Alan McKinnon
>>>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>>> what did it change?
>>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>>>
>>
>> I have absolutely no idea - only one of us can look at your computer
>> screen and run debugging commands, and it isn't me.
>>
>> If you want help on this list, it's traditional to supply up front
>> relevant information that will let people help you. You left this step
>> out.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan McKinnon
>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> 
> OK, I'm getting somewhere.
> After starting "evince" from command line I can print to pdf file; but
> only when starting it from a desktop I'm getting this error.
>  Error printing - Operation not supported


You are still not giving much in the way of information, and you are
still getting replies from people that basically say "Well, gee, I dunno
what the problem is, but try this $RANDOM_MAGIC_SAUCE"

It's an exercise in throwing shit at a wall and hoping some of it sticks.

So, it used to work. Now it doesn't work.
Something changed in between.
You need to provide the information to find what changed, no-one else
can. And it doesn't help repeating the error message you get, we already
know that.

Start with the short list of three items in my other mail.

I promise you, and this is important, until you provide that information
we will all keep going around in circles (unless you hit random pay
dirt) and your printing will continue to not work.





-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wed, April 17, 2013 22:20, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 17/04/2013 22:14, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 21:31, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 17/04/2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>>>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>> On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Alan McKinnon
>>>>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>>>> what did it change?
>>>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have absolutely no idea - only one of us can look at your computer
>>> screen and run debugging commands, and it isn't me.
>>>
>>> If you want help on this list, it's traditional to supply up front
>>> relevant information that will let people help you. You left this step
>>> out.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alan McKinnon
>>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>
>> OK, I'm getting somewhere.
>> After starting "evince" from command line I can print to pdf file; but
>> only when starting it from a desktop I'm getting this error.
>>  Error printing - Operation not supported
>
>
> You are still not giving much in the way of information, and you are
> still getting replies from people that basically say "Well, gee, I dunno
> what the problem is, but try this $RANDOM_MAGIC_SAUCE"

And it's this kind of response that makes the Ubuntu forums useless ;)

> It's an exercise in throwing shit at a wall and hoping some of it sticks.

Nice analogy...

> So, it used to work. Now it doesn't work.
> Something changed in between.
> You need to provide the information to find what changed, no-one else
> can. And it doesn't help repeating the error message you get, we already
> know that.

I agree, like actually provide more information when you mention that
after using $$RANDOM_TOOL it doesn't work on another system either.
In these cases, knowing what $$RANDOM_TOOL actually ended up doing would
really help.

> Start with the short list of three items in my other mail.
>
> I promise you, and this is important, until you provide that information
> we will all keep going around in circles (unless you hit random pay
> dirt) and your printing will continue to not work.

--
Joost Roeleveld

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 22:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>On Wed, April 17, 2013 22:07, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 21:55, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>On Wed, April 17, 2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>>>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>>On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Alan McKinnon
>>>>>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>>>> what
>>>> did it change?
>>>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>>>
>>>Can you print to PDF from another program?
>>>Do you have "net-print/cups-pdf" installed?
>>>Can you recreate the PDF-printer in the cups configuration?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Joost
>>
>> Yes, I have net-print/cups-pdf installed.
>> The strange part is that on one of my AMD64 system I logged in via ssh and
>> I could print to from "evince" to pdf file and after running
>> "python-updater" I am getting
>> the same error:  Error printing - Operation not supported
>
>What did python-updater update?
>
>--
>Joost Roeleveld

I'm running Python:    2.7

And these files were updated:

  Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
  Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
  Adding to list: dev-java/java-config:2
  Adding to list: dev-libs/boost:0
  Adding to list: dev-libs/libgamin:0
  Adding to list: dev-python/dbus-python:0
  Adding to list: dev-python/numpy:0
  Adding to list: dev-python/pycairo:0
  Adding to list: dev-python/setuptools:0
  Adding to list: dev-vcs/subversion:0
  Adding to list: media-libs/lcms:0
  Adding to list: sys-apps/file:0
  Adding to list: sys-libs/cracklib:0

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wed, April 17, 2013 22:27, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 22:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>On Wed, April 17, 2013 22:07, Joseph wrote:
>>> On 04/17/13 21:55, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>>On Wed, April 17, 2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>>>>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>>>On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Alan McKinnon
>>>>>>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so
>>>>> what
>>>>> did it change?
>>>>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>>>>
>>>>Can you print to PDF from another program?
>>>>Do you have "net-print/cups-pdf" installed?
>>>>Can you recreate the PDF-printer in the cups configuration?
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Joost
>>>
>>> Yes, I have net-print/cups-pdf installed.
>>> The strange part is that on one of my AMD64 system I logged in via ssh
>>> and
>>> I could print to from "evince" to pdf file and after running
>>> "python-updater" I am getting
>>> the same error:  Error printing - Operation not supported
>>
>>What did python-updater update?
>>
>>--
>>Joost Roeleveld
>
> I'm running Python:    2.7
>
> And these files were updated:
>
>   Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
>   Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
>   Adding to list: dev-java/java-config:2
>   Adding to list: dev-libs/boost:0
>   Adding to list: dev-libs/libgamin:0
>   Adding to list: dev-python/dbus-python:0
>   Adding to list: dev-python/numpy:0
>   Adding to list: dev-python/pycairo:0
>   Adding to list: dev-python/setuptools:0
>   Adding to list: dev-vcs/subversion:0
>   Adding to list: media-libs/lcms:0
>   Adding to list: sys-apps/file:0
>   Adding to list: sys-libs/cracklib:0

This helps, one of these packages must change something that evince
depends on.

Now, for the other 2 questions:
1) Did you try recreating the PDF-printer in the cups config?
2) Can you print to PDF using a different program?

--
Joost Roeleveld

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 22:42, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> I'm running Python:    2.7
>>
>> And these files were updated:
>>
>>   Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
>>   Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
>>   Adding to list: dev-java/java-config:2
>>   Adding to list: dev-libs/boost:0
>>   Adding to list: dev-libs/libgamin:0
>>   Adding to list: dev-python/dbus-python:0
>>   Adding to list: dev-python/numpy:0
>>   Adding to list: dev-python/pycairo:0
>>   Adding to list: dev-python/setuptools:0
>>   Adding to list: dev-vcs/subversion:0
>>   Adding to list: media-libs/lcms:0
>>   Adding to list: sys-apps/file:0
>>   Adding to list: sys-libs/cracklib:0
>
>This helps, one of these packages must change something that evince
>depends on.
>
>Now, for the other 2 questions:
>1) Did you try recreating the PDF-printer in the cups config?
>2) Can you print to PDF using a different program?
>
>--
>Joost Roeleveld

Yes, I can print from Firefox to pdf file OK. 
I check most of those files and they don't have any dependency on meld or evince.
I've tried to mask: dev-python/pycairo media-libs/lcms but there are on previous version in the portage.

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 22:20, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> OK, I'm getting somewhere.
>> After starting "evince" from command line I can print to pdf file; but
>> only when starting it from a desktop I'm getting this error.
>>  Error printing - Operation not supported
>
>
>You are still not giving much in the way of information, and you are
>still getting replies from people that basically say "Well, gee, I dunno
>what the problem is, but try this $RANDOM_MAGIC_SAUCE"
>
>It's an exercise in throwing shit at a wall and hoping some of it sticks.
>
>So, it used to work. Now it doesn't work.
>Something changed in between.
>You need to provide the information to find what changed, no-one else
>can. And it doesn't help repeating the error message you get, we already
>know that.
>
>Start with the short list of three items in my other mail.
>
>I promise you, and this is important, until you provide that information
>we will all keep going around in circles (unless you hit random pay
>dirt) and your printing will continue to not work.
>
>-- 
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

If is hard to find trouble-shoot these kind of problems. If I new which package is causing it I wouldn't be asking questions on this forum!
I'll emerge --rsync maybe it was fixed already.
I know Firefox-17.0.4 has a printing problem to a folder other than /home/user/ folder but it was fixed in 17.0.5 version.

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 22:26, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
>I agree, like actually provide more information when you mention that
>after using $$RANDOM_TOOL it doesn't work on another system either.
>In these cases, knowing what $$RANDOM_TOOL actually ended up doing would
>really help.
>
>> Start with the short list of three items in my other mail.
>>
>> I promise you, and this is important, until you provide that information
>> we will all keep going around in circles (unless you hit random pay
>> dirt) and your printing will continue to not work.
>
>--
>Joost Roeleveld

When I start "evince" from a command line and try to print to pdf file I get:

(evince:18927): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()


-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Peter Humphrey]

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On Wednesday 17 April 2013 18:14:24 Joseph wrote:

> I have the same verion,
> app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4  USE="dbus introspection postscript tiff -debug
> -djvu -dvi -gnome -gnome-keyring -nautilus -t1lib" 0 kB
> 
> I can print to printer but not to pdf or ps files.

If I've followed this discussion aright you're running gnome, so why do you 
have -gnome set against evince?

-- 
Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/17/13 21:55, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>On Wed, April 17, 2013 18:30, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 16:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>On 17/04/2013 15:57, Joseph wrote:
>>>> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>>>
>>>> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>well, obviously your installed evince doesn't do pdf printing.....
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Alan McKinnon
>>>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>>
>> Well, it did print to pdf or ps file a week ago before upgrading, so what
>> did it change?
>> Why all of a sudden doesn't do pdf printing?
>
>Can you print to PDF from another program?
>Do you have "net-print/cups-pdf" installed?
>Can you recreate the PDF-printer in the cups configuration?
>
>--
>Joost

Do I need package "net-print/cups-pdf" to print to PDF file?
I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: 
"Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 02:02, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>   On Wednesday 17 April 2013 18:14:24 Joseph wrote:
>
>
>   > I have the same verion,
>
>   > app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4 USE="dbus introspection postscript tiff
>   -debug
>
>   > -djvu -dvi -gnome -gnome-keyring -nautilus -t1lib" 0 kB
>
>   >
>
>   > I can print to printer but not to pdf or ps files.
>
>
>   If I've followed this discussion aright you're running gnome, so why do
>   you have -gnome set against evince?
>
>
>   --
>
>   Peter

Peter, I'm running XFCE4 

How do you run -debug?

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 02:02, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>   On Wednesday 17 April 2013 18:14:24 Joseph wrote:
>
>
>   > I have the same verion,
>
>   > app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4 USE="dbus introspection postscript tiff
>   -debug
>
>   > -djvu -dvi -gnome -gnome-keyring -nautilus -t1lib" 0 kB
>
>   >
>
>   > I can print to printer but not to pdf or ps files.
>
>
>   If I've followed this discussion aright you're running gnome, so why do
>   you have -gnome set against evince?
>
>
>   --
>
>   Peter

When I start "evince" as root I get:

(evince:24321): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file 
'/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.KSAKVW': No such file or directory

(evince:24321): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

There are no errors when I start it as user.

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Alan McKinnon]

On 18/04/2013 00:34, Joseph wrote:
> On 04/17/13 22:26, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>
>> I agree, like actually provide more information when you mention that
>> after using $$RANDOM_TOOL it doesn't work on another system either.
>> In these cases, knowing what $$RANDOM_TOOL actually ended up doing would
>> really help.
>>
>>> Start with the short list of three items in my other mail.
>>>
>>> I promise you, and this is important, until you provide that information
>>> we will all keep going around in circles (unless you hit random pay
>>> dirt) and your printing will continue to not work.
>>
>> -- 
>> Joost Roeleveld
> 
> When I start "evince" from a command line and try to print to pdf file I
> get:
> 
> (evince:18927): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to
> pango_layout_set_text()
> 
> 



Did you do a Google search on that error, and if so, what did you
conclude from reading the various hits you got?



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Alan McKinnon]

On 18/04/2013 00:26, Joseph wrote:
>> I promise you, and this is important, until you provide that information
>> we will all keep going around in circles (unless you hit random pay
>> dirt) and your printing will continue to not work.
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan McKinnon
>> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> 
> If is hard to find trouble-shoot these kind of problems. If I new which
> package is causing it I wouldn't be asking questions on this forum!
> I'll emerge --rsync maybe it was fixed already.
> I know Firefox-17.0.4 has a printing problem to a folder other than
> /home/user/ folder but it was fixed in 17.0.5 version.


What does a Firefox printing error have to do with evince?????

Please make at least *some* effort to help yourself and describe to the
list what steps you took and the results, even if they were not successful.

With an error like this I expect you to have already done some sane
Google searches to see if this is a common problem or isolated to you, I
would expect you to check bugs.gentoo.org and I would expect you to know
what packages have been updated since the problem manifested.



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Hartmut Figge]

Joseph:

>When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>
>Error printing - Operation not supported

I have tried that with evince 2.32.0-r4 and got the same error. After
starting evince from a xterm with 'evince example.pdf' and choosing
File->Print... 'Output Format [x] PDF' was checked and the field 'Name'
was filled with output.pdf.

Clicking Print resulted in a bar indicating the processing of the file
and at the end of that a window with the error message appeared.

But: only if i accept the prefilled field 'Name'. Deleting the
output.pdf there and typing in the same file name again resulted in a
successful print. :)

Looks like a bug in evince.

Hartmut
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Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Stroller]

On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:
> ...
> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.

Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 08:40, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 18/04/2013 00:34, Joseph wrote:
>> On 04/17/13 22:26, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree, like actually provide more information when you mention that
>>> after using $$RANDOM_TOOL it doesn't work on another system either.
>>> In these cases, knowing what $$RANDOM_TOOL actually ended up doing would
>>> really help.
>>>
>>>> Start with the short list of three items in my other mail.
>>>>
>>>> I promise you, and this is important, until you provide that information
>>>> we will all keep going around in circles (unless you hit random pay
>>>> dirt) and your printing will continue to not work.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost Roeleveld
>>
>> When I start "evince" from a command line and try to print to pdf file I
>> get:
>>
>> (evince:18927): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to
>> pango_layout_set_text()
>>
>>
>
>
>
>Did you do a Google search on that error, and if so, what did you
>conclude from reading the various hits you got?
>
>
>
>-- 
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Well, I finally narrow it down to one build in functionality it that is build into some library, though nobody can tell me which library is it.
I'm talking about the option when you go to "Print" from for example Firefox or evince, when print window pop-up there is option: "Print to File" (this has nothing to 
do with cups-pdf filter)
This option is not working as before. Prior to upgrade I could print from Firefox to PDF to any user sub-directory now I can only print to user home folder. Evince 
will not print at all to pdf or ps file. 

So that library screw me up, but I don't know which one is it.

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 13:23, Stroller wrote:
>
>On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:
>> ...
>> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.
>
>Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".
>
>Stroller.

No, cups-pdf has nothing to do with it as I just described it is build-in functionality when you go to "print" dialog when a windows pop-up there is an entry "Print 
to File" this option part of some kind of library but but I don't know which one. Still looking.
So it has nothing to do with evince or Firefox.

-- 
Joseph

[gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Hartmut Figge]

Stroller:
>On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:

>> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.
>
>Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".

I have not installed cups-pdf and don't use evince for printing. But i
have tested the problem. After pressing File->Print... this window opens

http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png

Pressing 'Print' in this window results in the the error window unless
the field 'Name:' with the prefilled value output.pdf is deleted and
manually replaced by e.g. output.pdf. *g*

Hartmut
-- 
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Von Usern fuer User  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Wang Xuerui]

2013/4/18 Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:
> Well, I finally narrow it down to one build in functionality it that is
> build into some library, though nobody can tell me which library is it.
> I'm talking about the option when you go to "Print" from for example Firefox
> or evince, when print window pop-up there is option: "Print to File" (this
> has nothing to do with cups-pdf filter)
> This option is not working as before. Prior to upgrade I could print from
> Firefox to PDF to any user sub-directory now I can only print to user home
> folder. Evince will not print at all to pdf or ps file.
> So that library screw me up, but I don't know which one is it.


Is that library ghostscript-gpl? The package provides quite a bit of
functionality regarding PS/PDF file generation. On my system this
gives:

$ equery depends ghostscript-gpl
 * These packages depend on ghostscript-gpl:
app-text/epspdf-0.5.3 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
app-text/libspectre-0.2.7 (>=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.62)
app-text/ps2eps-1.64 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
dev-lang/nasm-2.10.07 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
dev-python/matplotlib-1.2.0-r2 (latex ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
dev-tex/tex4ht-20090611_p1038-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-gfx/gimp-2.8.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.8.7 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-gfx/uniconvertor-1.1.5 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
media-libs/sk1libs-0.9.1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
net-print/cups-1.5.2-r4 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups])
net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
sci-mathematics/octave-3.4.3-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.6.1 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)

A lot of packages. So I suspect that is the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 09:30, Hartmut Figge wrote:
>Joseph:
>
>>When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>
>>Error printing - Operation not supported
>
>I have tried that with evince 2.32.0-r4 and got the same error. After
>starting evince from a xterm with 'evince example.pdf' and choosing
>File->Print... 'Output Format [x] PDF' was checked and the field 'Name'
>was filled with output.pdf.
>
>Clicking Print resulted in a bar indicating the processing of the file
>and at the end of that a window with the error message appeared.
>
>But: only if i accept the prefilled field 'Name'. Deleting the
>output.pdf there and typing in the same file name again resulted in a
>successful print. :)
>
>Looks like a bug in evince.
>
>Hartmut
>-- 
>Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/
>Von Usern fuer User  :-)

No, this is not evince, I have a system prior to upgrade with evince-2.32.0-r4 and after upgrade evince did not change so this is not evince nor Firefox this is 
the functionality of the "Print to File" option.
So I'm trying to find out which package implements this functionality. 

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote:
>Stroller:
>>On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:
>
>>> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.
>>
>>Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".
>
>I have not installed cups-pdf and don't use evince for printing. But i
>have tested the problem. After pressing File->Print... this window opens
>
>http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png
>
>Pressing 'Print' in this window results in the the error window unless
>the field 'Name:' with the prefilled value output.pdf is deleted and
>manually replaced by e.g. output.pdf. *g*
>
>Hartmut
>-- 
>Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/
>Von Usern fuer User  :-)

Even if I type different file name eg. 123.pdf I can not print. 
Which package implements "Print to file" it is not cups-pdf

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 20:38, Wang Xuerui wrote:
>2013/4/18 Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:
>> Well, I finally narrow it down to one build in functionality it that is
>> build into some library, though nobody can tell me which library is it.
>> I'm talking about the option when you go to "Print" from for example Firefox
>> or evince, when print window pop-up there is option: "Print to File" (this
>> has nothing to do with cups-pdf filter)
>> This option is not working as before. Prior to upgrade I could print from
>> Firefox to PDF to any user sub-directory now I can only print to user home
>> folder. Evince will not print at all to pdf or ps file.
>> So that library screw me up, but I don't know which one is it.
>
>
>Is that library ghostscript-gpl? The package provides quite a bit of
>functionality regarding PS/PDF file generation. On my system this
>gives:
>
>$ equery depends ghostscript-gpl
> * These packages depend on ghostscript-gpl:
>app-text/epspdf-0.5.3 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>app-text/libspectre-0.2.7 (>=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.62)
>app-text/ps2eps-1.64 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>dev-lang/nasm-2.10.07 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>dev-python/matplotlib-1.2.0-r2 (latex ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>dev-tex/tex4ht-20090611_p1038-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>media-gfx/gimp-2.8.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.8.7 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>media-gfx/uniconvertor-1.1.5 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>media-libs/sk1libs-0.9.1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>net-print/cups-1.5.2-r4 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups])
>net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>sci-mathematics/octave-3.4.3-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.6.1 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
>
>A lot of packages. So I suspect that is the problem.

No, I checked on my functioning systems (prior upgrade) is ghostscript-gpl-9.05-r1 and the after upgrade it was the same version so it is not it.

-- 
Joseph

[gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Hartmut Figge]

Joseph:
>On 04/18/13 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote:

>>http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png
>
>Even if I type different file name eg. 123.pdf I can not print.

Does 'Print Preview' work?

>Which package implements "Print to file" it is not cups-pdf

Cannot be, because i don't have cups-pdf installed.

Now i have reread the the thread. You wrote

|After starting "evince" from command line I can print to pdf file; but
|only when starting it from a desktop I'm getting this error.

I can only test by evoking evince from a xterm. No desktop here. With
what command is evince called when started from the desktop?

Hartmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 15:32, Hartmut Figge wrote:
>Joseph:
>>On 04/18/13 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote:
>
>>>http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png
>>
>>Even if I type different file name eg. 123.pdf I can not print.
>
>Does 'Print Preview' work?
>
>>Which package implements "Print to file" it is not cups-pdf
>
>Cannot be, because i don't have cups-pdf installed.
>
>Now i have reread the the thread. You wrote
>
>|After starting "evince" from command line I can print to pdf file; but
>|only when starting it from a desktop I'm getting this error.
>
>I can only test by evoking evince from a xterm. No desktop here. With
>what command is evince called when started from the desktop?
>
>Hartmut

When you install evince, the entry is automatically created in XFCE4 in Application Menu -> Graphics -> Document Viewer 
I don't you can edit this entry, can you? 
How to look it up?

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:06:08 -0600, Joseph wrote:

> >I can only test by evoking evince from a xterm. No desktop here. With
> >what command is evince called when started from the desktop?
> >
> >Hartmut  
> 
> When you install evince, the entry is automatically created in XFCE4 in
> Application Menu -> Graphics -> Document Viewer I don't you can edit
> this entry, can you? How to look it up?

You can edit the .desktop file installed by the package. But first you
have to find what is wrong with the desktop invocation.

ps aux | grep evince

run after starting it from the desktop will show the options used when
running it.



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Neil Bothwick

Fine day for a good workout. Steal something heavy.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 15:27, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:06:08 -0600, Joseph wrote:
>
>> >I can only test by evoking evince from a xterm. No desktop here. With
>> >what command is evince called when started from the desktop?
>> >
>> >Hartmut
>>
>> When you install evince, the entry is automatically created in XFCE4 in
>> Application Menu -> Graphics -> Document Viewer I don't you can edit
>> this entry, can you? How to look it up?
>
>You can edit the .desktop file installed by the package. But first you
>have to find what is wrong with the desktop invocation.
>
>ps aux | grep evince
>
>run after starting it from the desktop will show the options used when
>running it.
>
>
>
>-- 
>Neil Bothwick
>
>Fine day for a good workout. Steal something heavy.

After starting evince from desktop, running:

  ps aux | grep evince
joseph   18214 10.0  0.6 1069048 52660 ?       Sl   08:45   0:00 evince /home/joseph/123.pdf
joseph   18220  0.0  0.0 183516  2268 ?        Sl   08:45   0:00 /usr/libexec/evinced
root     18232  0.0  0.0   8516   884 pts/0    S+   08:45   0:00 grep --colour=auto evince

is not giving me much. evince is starting file 123.pdf without any options. 

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Alan McKinnon]

On 18/04/2013 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Stroller:
>> On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:
> 
>>> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.
>>
>> Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".
> 
> I have not installed cups-pdf and don't use evince for printing. But i
> have tested the problem. After pressing File->Print... this window opens
> 
> http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png
> 
> Pressing 'Print' in this window results in the the error window unless
> the field 'Name:' with the prefilled value output.pdf is deleted and
> manually replaced by e.g. output.pdf. *g*



The console error is regarding invalid UTF-8 strings in filenames.

I'm betting the cause is idiotic filename munging by evince or one of
the lower libraries involved, which makes it a bug.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 18/04/2013 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote:
>> Stroller:
>>> On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:
>>
>>>> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.
>>>
>>> Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".
>>
>> I have not installed cups-pdf and don't use evince for printing. But i
>> have tested the problem. After pressing File->Print... this window opens
>>
>> http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png
>>
>> Pressing 'Print' in this window results in the the error window unless
>> the field 'Name:' with the prefilled value output.pdf is deleted and
>> manually replaced by e.g. output.pdf. *g*
>
>
>
>The console error is regarding invalid UTF-8 strings in filenames.
>
>I'm betting the cause is idiotic filename munging by evince or one of
>the lower libraries involved, which makes it a bug.
>
>
>-- 
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Here is a list of 149 packaged that I emerged one of them is responsible for implementation of that "Print to File" in Print window
Can somebody help give me a hint which one it might be?

By the way meld-1.7.0 is buggy don't use it, 1.6.0 works OK


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-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/18/13 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 18/04/2013 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote:
>> Stroller:
>>> On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:
>>
>>>> I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program "print" there is still option: "Print to file" except that now 'Save to folder" by default is empty field, before if I remember was a user home directory.
>>>
>>> Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".
>>
>> I have not installed cups-pdf and don't use evince for printing. But i
>> have tested the problem. After pressing File->Print... this window opens
>>
>> http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png
>>
>> Pressing 'Print' in this window results in the the error window unless
>> the field 'Name:' with the prefilled value output.pdf is deleted and
>> manually replaced by e.g. output.pdf. *g*
>
>
>
>The console error is regarding invalid UTF-8 strings in filenames.
>
>I'm betting the cause is idiotic filename munging by evince or one of
>the lower libraries involved, which makes it a bug.
>
>
>-- 
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

SOLVED!
x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12
and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry.

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Stroller]

On 19 April 2013, at 15:00, Joseph wrote:
> ...
> SOLVED!
> x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12
> and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry.

Is there a bug filed for this?

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Joseph]

On 04/19/13 21:18, Stroller wrote:
>
>On 19 April 2013, at 15:00, Joseph wrote:
>> ...
>> SOLVED!
>> x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12
>> and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry.
>
>Is there a bug filed for this?
>
>Stroller.

Yes, I file a but and it is confirmed.
They will stabilize gtk+-2.24.17 (this one is working OK) I tested it on both amd64 and x86) so you can upgrade to this version.

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Stroller]

On 19 April 2013, at 22:53, Joseph wrote:
>>> ...SOLVED!
>>> x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12
>>> and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry.
>> 
>> Is there a bug filed for this?
> 
> Yes, I file a but and it is confirmed.
> They will stabilize gtk+-2.24.17 (this one is working OK) I tested it on both amd64 and x86) so you can upgrade to this version.

Thanks.

Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

[Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)]

On 2013-04-17, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/17/13 17:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>Hi, Joseph.
>>
>>On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:32:23AM -0600, Joseph wrote:
>>> On 04/17/13 17:05, tastytea wrote:
>>> >Am Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:02 -0600
>>> >schrieb Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> >> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
>>
>>> >> Error printing - Operation not supported
>>
>>
>>
>>> >You can use File -> Sove a Copy...
>>
>>> This doesn't help me, as there are times where I want to print one or two pages from pdf document to another pdf file, so "Save a Copy" will not do it.
>>
>>For what it's worth, my evince (2.32.0-r4) prints without problems.
>>Could it be you're missing some critical use flag?  Try dumping these out
>>with
>>
>># emerge -pv evince
>
> I have the same verion,
> app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4  USE="dbus introspection postscript tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -gnome -gnome-keyring -nautilus -t1lib" 0 kB
>
> I can print to printer but not to pdf or ps files.

I'd compare the gtk+ (and maybe pango?) USE flags.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a feature of the gtk+ printing dialog, and
at least in evince I think printing relies on pango.

-- 
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/