Re: printing pdf with evince

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:28:35 -0600
> nightowl <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I recently notice that when I try to send a pdf document to the printer 
>> using the gnome viewer evince, it will not print text.  For comparison, 
>> I can also print a pdf document from within the icecat browser, and it 
>> works good.  Anyone know why evince would behave this way when printing 
>> hard copy of text from a pdf?  I read that the gnome settings key 
>> 'override-restrictions' for org.gnome.Evince schema should be set to 
>> 'true' and that is what I currently have by default.
>> 
>
> I just noticed this recently on my machine too.  Evince does not print
> nor display most (all?) of the nonembedded fonts in several documents
> I've opened.  The "document properties" -> "Fonts" window says that
> GuixSD system fonts are being substituted, e.g. the Liberation fonts,
> but they are not displayed.

On a high-end printer with a non-Guix CUPS service running, I can print
just fine.  However I’ve seen the problem you describe with a low-end
printer and the CUPS service provided by Guix.

Could it be that our CUPS service somehow fails to find the standard
PostScript fonts, those normally provided by the ‘gs-fonts’ package?

Thanks,
Ludo’.