printing certain pdfs (samsung 1660, pdf generated using lyx/latex) works using pdftoraster but not pdftoraster-poppler
Bug #765514 reported by
Morgatron
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
After updates maybe 1 week ago, printing pdfs generated using lyx have stopped working. After choosing print (in evince or okular), pdftoraster-poppler uses 100% cpu for up to an hour, before printing only the math from the document.
If I use a symlink to pdftoraster instead, the documents print fine.
Using Natty development branch.
I think that I have the same or at least a related problem: When printing djvu files to my Samsung ML-2010R using the SPLIX driver, I repeatedly got session timeouts and and a very high CPU utilization due to pdftoraster- poppler. Replacing /usr/lib/ cups/filter/ pdftoraster- poppler by a symlink to /usr/lib/ cups/filter/ pdftoraster solves the problem. The printer is fed as fast as possible and the CPU utilization does not skyrocket.
Could it be that the SPLIX driver triggers a bug in the poppler code? (Maybe this interesting: The problem goes away as well by using the foomatic/GDI driver instead of the SPLIX driver. But in my opinion the foomatic/GDI driver lacks features and printout quality is lower.)