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From: Wang Xuerui <idontknw.wang@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:38:47
Message-Id: CABK5mSYBZ_CBtMqaqd0Yy+ZV7no6eqODdQPVCCcLEV-gNnDY_g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF by Joseph
1 2013/4/18 Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>:
2 > Well, I finally narrow it down to one build in functionality it that is
3 > build into some library, though nobody can tell me which library is it.
4 > I'm talking about the option when you go to "Print" from for example Firefox
5 > or evince, when print window pop-up there is option: "Print to File" (this
6 > has nothing to do with cups-pdf filter)
7 > This option is not working as before. Prior to upgrade I could print from
8 > Firefox to PDF to any user sub-directory now I can only print to user home
9 > folder. Evince will not print at all to pdf or ps file.
10 > So that library screw me up, but I don't know which one is it.
11
12
13 Is that library ghostscript-gpl? The package provides quite a bit of
14 functionality regarding PS/PDF file generation. On my system this
15 gives:
16
17 $ equery depends ghostscript-gpl
18 * These packages depend on ghostscript-gpl:
19 app-text/epspdf-0.5.3 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
20 app-text/libspectre-0.2.7 (>=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.62)
21 app-text/ps2eps-1.64 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
22 dev-lang/nasm-2.10.07 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
23 dev-python/matplotlib-1.2.0-r2 (latex ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
24 dev-tex/tex4ht-20090611_p1038-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
25 media-gfx/gimp-2.8.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
26 media-gfx/imagemagick-6.7.8.7 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
27 media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.4 (postscript ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
28 media-gfx/uniconvertor-1.1.5 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
29 media-libs/sk1libs-0.9.1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
30 net-print/cups-1.5.2-r4 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl[cups])
31 net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
32 sci-mathematics/octave-3.4.3-r1 (app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
33 sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.6.1 (doc ? app-text/ghostscript-gpl)
34
35 A lot of packages. So I suspect that is the problem.

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Re: [gentoo-user] evince - Error printing to PDF Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>