Using Evince 4.0 with Poppler 4.3 When I print a document made with pdflatex, the margins on the top and left are noticeably smaller, and the right margin is larger. When laying too sheets of paper on top of one another, it appears that each individual word is the same size, but that the spaces between the words are somehow smaller. This seems strange, but it also seems to be the case. I will attach two pdf files. The first, lpr.pdf, is made by printing the pdf directly (actually through gtklp) to the cups-pdf virtual printer. The second file, evince.pdf, is made by printing the same file via the evince printing interface to cups-pdf. As you can see, evince.pdf seems to suffer from the effect I'm describing.
Created attachment 4096 [details] Printed through gtklp This file is printed through gtklp (to the cups-pdf virtual printer) and its margins and whitespace are correct.
Created attachment 4097 [details] Printed through evince This pdf file is printed through the evince printing interface (to the cups-pdf virtual printer). Note that the margins have shrunk, and I believe that the whitespace between words has as well. (This was what I got from my very unscientific procedure of holding the two different sheets of paper up to the light, in any case.)
By the way, I should say that I purposely made the margins quite small on the original file in order to make the problem with evince.pdf more evident. So the fact that the margins are small is not in itself a sign of the problem I'm discussing -- just the difference between the two files.
I can confirm this issue. Whitespace, when printed via evince / poppler, appears to be smaller than when printed from Acrobat. In fact, there are a number of whitespace-related formatting differences between a PDF rendering on-screen in evince, and the printed output. An example is a bug I previously submitted: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3391 Perhaps these are related?
I am pretty sure that this is now fixed. I'm using v0.5.1 of both poppler and evince, and all my whitespace-related issues have disappeared. I am leaving this bug's status as it is ( as I'm not the one who reported it, and I don't even know if I CAN change the status anyway ), but I suggest that Jesse ( who originally reported the bug ) try out v0.5.1 of poppler / evince, and mark the bug as 'fixed' if you are satisfied. Great work, however fixed it :)
Hmmm... I'm using the debian experimental version of 0.5.0 right now, and I'm still having the same problems. I also rolled my own 0.5.1 and still had the same problems too (I removed that version because of a conflict with debian xpdf-utilities). So no happiness here yet. I wonder if someother change on your system might have taken care of the problem?
Can you both please retest with poppler 0.6.2 (or head)?
I can't reproduce my issue or this issue with the latest poppler. For me, all whitespace issues have been solved for quite a while. I can't speak for the original submitter though.
Based on the Comment #8 feedback, I'm going to assume that this problem is gone. If anyone can still reproduce this (with 0.6.2 or head) please re-open and update the bug with whatever additional information you have. Thanks.
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