SVG files fail to print

- printing should not require Python to be present, not sure what is causing that
- does other software print correctly to this printer
- are you able to experiment with any other printers and Inkscape
- could you try installing PDFCreator as a printer driver to see if it works
- are you doing borderless printing
- how do you connect your printer: USB, or parallel port, or FireWire?

On 08/01/13 01:29, Alvin Penner wrote:
1)> - printing should not require Python to be present, not
sure what is causing that
2)> - does other software print correctly to this printer
3)> - are you able to experiment with any other printers and
Inkscape
4)> - could you try installing PDFCreator as a printer
driver to see if it works
5)> - are you doing borderless printing
6)> - how do you connect your printer: USB, or parallel
port, or FireWire?
>

1) It looks as though something's screwed up, don't you think?
2) I can print pretty well anything else on the printer,
including printing an svg file from Gimp (but of course it's
not vector).
3) doubtful. At the moment, no
4) I can print to file and to PDF and then print them OK
5) yes
6) USB

[SOLVED - sort of]

I uninstalled inkscape and uniconverter, then re-installed them, uniconverter first.

Printing failed with no error message; there appeared to be no job sent to the printer.

By chance I found that printing via
(1) File=>Print=>Print regularly fails to do anything

BUT via
(2) File=>Print=>Print Preview; click on Print icon works OK

interesting, similar to comment 13 in Bug 531342

While I have no idea what might have triggered that call to a UniConvertor-based output extension of Inkscape when trying to print, there's another known issue affecting printing directly from Inkscape on certain platforms:

>> (1) File=>Print=>Print regularly fails to do anything
>> (2) File=>Print=>Print Preview; click on Print icon works OK
>
> interesting, similar to comment 13 in Bug 531342

Printing directly using the CUPS backend of GTK+ (i.e. on Linux and OS X), has been affected by an upstream bug in GTK+ since GTK+ 2.24.9 (2.24.9 caused Inkscape to crash when trying to print directly, and the initial fix for the crash in 2.24.10 broke printing from Inkscape altogether). The upstream bug in GTK+ has been fixed by now, but is not yet part of the latest stable release (currently 2.24.14). Note that the upstream bug doesn't usually affect printing e.g. from evince (apparently because evince, the default PDF viewer called from the GTK+ print dialog for 'Preview' - sets the page size differently than Inkscape).

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998156>
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679883>
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689658>

Hello, same issue here.

-Linux mint 13 Mate (all updates to this date)
-Canon Pixma iP1800, updated from ppa:michael-gruz/canon
-Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886.

Printing works for gimp, pluma, libreoffice but not from inkscape. The options for paper size, paper order and orientation can't be changed (grayed out).

The only way I can print is using the preview option.

With the file-print option, printer do nothing and the status is as if the file was printed (no error output).

Same here on Ubuntu 12.04. Print briefly flashes the printer icon on the panel, but does nothing. But Print..Print Preview -> Print works fine. I noticed that the default printer is not selected either.

But although print preview prints, it does not print correctly. It seems to use Evince to display the preview 9 (svg) but then its printed offset on page so in my case I only get half of it on the sheet.