Can't print certain PDFs from HP Laserjet 1200; others work fine
Submitted by Nate Graham
Assigned to poppler-bugs
Link to original bug (#100090)
Description
Created attachment 130095 troubleshoot.txt from the printer troubleshooter
This is a duplicate of the issue I reported on the RedHat bugzilla at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420072
I figured I'd report it in the right place--the upstream project itself.
SUMMARY I have a USB-connected HP LaserJet 1200 laser printer. From my Fedora 25 machine, most documents print just fine. However there are certain PDFs that refuse to print. I can print these troublesome PDFs from my Windows and Mac machines.
HOW REPRODUCIBLE 100% reproducible with affected PDFs. 0% reproducible for other documents. Not sure what makes certain PDFs not work. Same results on Fedora 25 with poppler-0.45.0-2.fc25 as well as OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with poppler-0.52.0
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
- Find/acquire/generate a troublesome PDF document (one is attached)
- Print the PDF document from program that can print (evince, chromium, xournal, okular,
lp
; doesn't matter)
ACTUAL RESULTS The document shows up in the printer's job queue and the lights on the front of the printer begin to blink as though it's about to start printing. But it never actually prints. The job's status remains "processing" indefinitely. I've waited 30 minutes in this state and it never prints.
EXPECTED RESULTS The document should print within 10 seconds of being sent to the printer.
REGRESSION
- All text documents print fine from gedit and
lp
- Most PDF documents print fine from evince, chromium, xournal, okular, and
lp
- Affected PDFs do not print from any program (evince, chromium, xournal, okular, or
lp
) - Same results in Fedora 25 as well as OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
ADDITIONAL INFO
- Attached troubleshooting.txt from the printer troubleshooter
- Attached a PDF that won't print
- Attached a PDF that does print
Attachment 130095, "troubleshoot.txt from the printer troubleshooter":
troubleshoot.txt