Bug 51655 - PDFtoPS freezes when certain PDF files are printed from evince to cups
Summary: PDFtoPS freezes when certain PDF files are printed from evince to cups
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2012-07-02 09:05 UTC by Harald Linden
Modified: 2012-07-03 09:52 UTC (History)
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2012-07-02 09:10 UTC, Harald Linden 		Details
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2012-07-02 09:10 UTC, Harald Linden 		Details
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Description Harald Linden 2012-07-02 09:05:51 UTC 
When I print some PDF files from evince 2.32 to a printer in CUPS 1.5.2 that uses PDFtoPS to process the PDF, PDFtoPS uses 100% CPU and does nothing else. When I convert the original PDF, it works fine. When I convert the one I've pulled from the spool directory of cups, it freezes. Tested using poppler-0.18 and 0.20 on Gentoo. See both files, the original and the one that breaks PDFtoPS in the attachment.
Comment 1 Harald Linden 2012-07-02 09:10:10 UTC 
Created attachment 63705 [details]
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Comment 2 Harald Linden 2012-07-02 09:10:36 UTC 
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Comment 3 Harald Linden 2012-07-02 09:10:55 UTC 
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Comment 4 Harald Linden 2012-07-02 09:11:14 UTC 
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Comment 5 Adrian Johnson 2012-07-03 06:24:34 UTC 
I'm not sure if it is frozen or very slow. The problem is page 6 in the broken pdf. Acroread renders this page extremely slowly. So it looks like a problem with the pdf generated by cairo 1.10.2. I tried generating the pdf from the original using cairo 1.12.2. The output was 1/3 of the size and pdftops was able to convert it to ps in a few seconds.
Comment 6 Harald Linden 2012-07-03 07:40:38 UTC 
I've just tried upgrading to cairo 1.12.2 but the build fails at the moment. I'll get back to this bug as soon as I can test it.
Comment 7 Harald Linden 2012-07-03 09:52:16 UTC 
Alright, I managed to build and install Cairo 0.12.2 after all and the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks Adrian for the quick resolution!

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