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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:59:05
Message-Id: 20130418125910.GF489@syscon7.inet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF by Wang Xuerui
1 On 04/18/13 20:38, Wang Xuerui wrote:
2 >2013/4/18 Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>:
3 >> Well, I finally narrow it down to one build in functionality it that is
4 >> build into some library, though nobody can tell me which library is it.
5 >> I'm talking about the option when you go to "Print" from for example Firefox
6 >> or evince, when print window pop-up there is option: "Print to File" (this
7 >> has nothing to do with cups-pdf filter)
8 >> This option is not working as before. Prior to upgrade I could print from
9 >> Firefox to PDF to any user sub-directory now I can only print to user home
10 >> folder. Evince will not print at all to pdf or ps file.
11 >> So that library screw me up, but I don't know which one is it.
12 >
13 >
14 >Is that library ghostscript-gpl? The package provides quite a bit of
15 >functionality regarding PS/PDF file generation. On my system this
16 >gives:
17 >
18 >$ equery depends ghostscript-gpl
19 > * These packages depend on ghostscript-gpl:
20 >app-text/epspdf-0.5.3 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
21 >app-text/libspectre-0.2.7 (>=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.62)
22 >app-text/ps2eps-1.64 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
23 >dev-lang/nasm-2.10.07 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
24 >dev-python/matplotlib-1.2.0-r2 (latex ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
25 >dev-tex/tex4ht-20090611_p1038-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
26 >media-gfx/gimp-2.8.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
27 >media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.8.7 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
28 >media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
29 >media-gfx/uniconvertor-1.1.5 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
30 >media-libs/sk1libs-0.9.1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
31 >net-print/cups-1.5.2-r4 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups])
32 >net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
33 >sci-mathematics/octave-3.4.3-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
34 >sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.6.1 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
35 >
36 >A lot of packages. So I suspect that is the problem.
37
38 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.
39
40 --
41 Joseph