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[Thomas Mayer <802942@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess that Cairo is part of the Gecko engine which then is used by
firefox and thunderbird.

My Firefox 40.0.3 comes shipped with Gecko/20100101 according to
about:support tab:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/40.0

which basically explains why cairo is so old (as said, cairo 1.9.5 dates
to ~2009/2010).

To sum it up, either firefox needs to get a recent gecko engine and/or
the gecko engine used for firefox needs to have a recent cairo version.

If that does not solve the problem (maybe mozilla just will not fix it
for years), then cups-filters comes into play.

Same applies for thunderbird.

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Title:
  printing PDFs (and other complex documents) from GTK applications
  fails

Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello,

  I'm discovering a bug when printing complex PDFs or other complex
  documents from GTK applications. Printing complex PDFs from evince, or
  sometimes even printing comples webpages from firefox result in one
  error page being printed instead of the document content:

  +-------------------------+
  | ERROR NAME;        |
  |         undefined        |
  | COMMAND;             |
  |         Q                        |
  | OPERAND STACK;  |
  +-------------------------+

  My printer is a Brother HL 5270DN. It doesn't matter whether the
  printer is connected via USB or as network printer. In both cases the
  described bug does happen. The PPD I use is "Brother HL-5270DN BR-
  Script3", similar to the one at
  http://www.openprinting.org/download/PPD/Brother/BR5270_2_GPL.ppd

  I discovered this bug in up-to-date Debian unstable for several years
  already. Now I switched one of my laptops to Ubuntu Natty (fresh
  installation), and unfortunately discovered the same bug there as
  well.

  I'm pretty sure that this bug is related to bug #419143, and not
  really in CUPS, but rather in some library (poppler or cairo) used by
  GTK applications. The same PDFs that produce the described error in
  evince, print fine in okular.

  I attach an example PDF that doesn't print in evince, but prints fine
  in okular. It's sufficient to (try to) print page 1 of the document.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-0.5~20110427-generic 2.6.39-rc5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.39-0-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CupsErrorLog:
   
  Date: Tue Jun 28 13:13:29 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
  Lpstat: device for Brother-HL-5270DN: lpd://192.168.1.75/PASSTHRU
  MachineType: LENOVO 4180W1H
  Papersize: a4
  PpdFiles: Brother-HL-5270DN: Brother HL-5270DN BR-Script3
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de:en
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.39-0-generic root=/dev/mapper/vgsys-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: cups
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/13/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 83ET56WW (1.26 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 4180W1H
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr83ET56WW(1.26):bd05/13/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4180W1H:pvrThinkPadT420:rvnLENOVO:rn4180W1H:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 4180W1H
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T420
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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