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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:00:27
Message-Id: 20130419140023.GO489@syscon7.inet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF by Alan McKinnon
1 On 04/18/13 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 >On 18/04/2013 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote:
3 >> Stroller:
4 >>> On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>> 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.
7 >>>
8 >>> 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".
9 >>
10 >> I have not installed cups-pdf and don't use evince for printing. But i
11 >> have tested the problem. After pressing File->Print... this window opens
12 >>
13 >> http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/ev130418.png
14 >>
15 >> Pressing 'Print' in this window results in the the error window unless
16 >> the field 'Name:' with the prefilled value output.pdf is deleted and
17 >> manually replaced by e.g. output.pdf. *g*
18 >
19 >
20 >
21 >The console error is regarding invalid UTF-8 strings in filenames.
22 >
23 >I'm betting the cause is idiotic filename munging by evince or one of
24 >the lower libraries involved, which makes it a bug.
25 >
26 >
27 >--
28 >Alan McKinnon
29 >alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
30
31 SOLVED!
32 x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12
33 and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry.
34
35 --
36 Joseph

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>