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[Expired for evince (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Evince can't read a file "printed" to ps by Adobe Reader

Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evince

  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

  Document Viewer 2.30.3

  Adobe Reader 9.4

  
  I've been having trouble printing pdf documents in booklet format using a script called "fp" or "fprint", which takes input from a ps file and uses postscript utilities to print an A5-sized booklet.

  Taking a 4-page pdf file received in an e-mail, I opened it using
  Adobe reader, then printed it to a ps file. When I run fprint on this
  ps file I get the first page output OK (printed sideways on the first
  half of an A4 sheet), but the printout fails with an error on the
  second half of the sheet (this is actually the last page of the
  document, because of the way the booklet is folded).

  To cut a long story short, I've found that printing a pdf file to ps
  from Evince and using fprint on the output is successful.

  I have confirmed that this is not a freak occurrence related to the
  file I received, as I've tried the same thing on the Ubuntu Manual
  "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04", and got the same result -
  printout fails after a couple of pages - and it's also impossible to
  read the Adobe-Reader-printed-to-ps version of the manual in Evince;
  the first four pages of the manual are presented on the screen, but
  any subsequent page is empty, apart from "Loading..." in large grey
  letters.

  To summarise:

  1. Download w_ubun01.pdf - which I'm assuming is a properly-formed .pdf file!
  2. Open it in Adobe Reader 9.
  3. Print it to (e.g.) temp.ps.
  4. Open temp.ps with Evince.

  Reading this again, it looks to me as though the problem might be in
  Adobe Reader!

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