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From: "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:04:32
Message-Id: kl1gn6$mtm$3@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF by Joseph
1 On 2013-04-17, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 04/17/13 17:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
3 >>Hi, Joseph.
4 >>
5 >>On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:32:23AM -0600, Joseph wrote:
6 >>> On 04/17/13 17:05, tastytea wrote:
7 >>> >Am Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:02 -0600
8 >>> >schrieb Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>:
9 >>
10 >>> >> When I try to print from "evince" to pdf file I get an error:
11 >>
12 >>> >> Error printing - Operation not supported
13 >>
14 >>
15 >>
16 >>> >You can use File -> Sove a Copy...
17 >>
18 >>> 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.
19 >>
20 >>For what it's worth, my evince (2.32.0-r4) prints without problems.
21 >>Could it be you're missing some critical use flag? Try dumping these out
22 >>with
23 >>
24 >># emerge -pv evince
25 >
26 > I have the same verion,
27 > app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4 USE="dbus introspection postscript tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -gnome -gnome-keyring -nautilus -t1lib" 0 kB
28 >
29 > I can print to printer but not to pdf or ps files.
30
31 I'd compare the gtk+ (and maybe pango?) USE flags.
32
33 If I'm not mistaken, this is a feature of the gtk+ printing dialog, and
34 at least in evince I think printing relies on pango.
35
36 --
37 Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
38 http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/