Bug 24828

This is another bug in CairoOutputDev::drawImageMaskPrescaled().

This information is about Evince 3.4.0 from Ubuntu 12.04 using poppler 0.18.4-1ubuntu2 . I attached a file (Abschlussarbeit.pdf) that Evince does not print correctly - the image is still missing. Further, I made some experiments:

0) printing Abschlussarbeit.pdf from Evince to a CUPS printer fails to print the image
1) "lpr Abschlussarbeit.pdf" prints the file correctly with image, using a remote CUPS server via IPP
2) printing Abschlussarbeit.pdf from Evince into a file Ausgabe.pdf prints correctly
3) printing Ausgabe.pdf from Evince fails to print the image (as expected)
4) printing Abschlussarbeit.pdf from Ad*be Reader to the same CUPS printer as in 0) prints the image correctly.
5) printing Abschlussarbeit.pdf using gtklp prints the file correctly
6) printing the document from Evince to a different printer (HP color laser) fails to print the image

Since lpr is the CUPS tool, I doubt it's a problem with CUPS or the printer driver. Further, both the third party tool and gtklp print the file correctly, using the same CUPS printer.

This is also reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/537970

Created attachment 62104 [details]
Demo PDF that poppler fails to render including the image

Bug in comment #3 renders crap in Adobe Reader too, so i'd vote for broken document.

Created attachment 62423 [details]
Preview of Abschlussarbeit.pdf as intended to print

OK, just so people don't "vote" the document is broken I attached Abschlussarbeit.png, which shows how the document is supposed to print. What does in fact not print, though, is the PNG logo in the lower right corner. The text is kept to a minimum to make debugging easier.

And, seriously, if you take a look at the experiments I performed to narrow down the problem (comment #2 above), how can you think I post a bug for an obviously broken document? We've been having that problem for months at work with just about every document we try to print - generated by LaTeX, OOo, LibreOffice, you name it. There is always some image that does not print. And I tried to view and print the document with Adobe Reader, too, and if I write "Adobe Reader prints correctly", you can take my word for it.

If anybody can get me started on building the project, I'm glad to help.

The renderings I get from evince (master, with poppler master and
cairo master), ghostscript (9.05 and master) and mupdf (master) all
match the png you posted as attachment #62423 [details].

I looked at the document after running it though:

  :; mupdfclean -d -a Abschlussarbeit.pdf Abschlussarbeit.pdfc

to make it readable.  The only odd thing I found was that the ink was
set (via 0 g 0 G) multiple times in a row.  That is redunant – even
redundantly redundant ☺ – but shouldn’t cause any harm.

Oddly, gs 9.05’s psdrgb device was unable to render the file; every
other output device I tried with gs 9.05 worked fine.

In any case, poppler master with cairo master renders correctly.

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