Bug#448445: print preview broken: Unknown option --print-settings in evince
Drew Parsons
Version: 1.7.13-1
Severity: normal
Print preview is now broken. There is no response after
pressing the Print Preview button.
Starting gnumeric from the command line, the following message gets
thrown to stderr:
** (gnumeric:31528): WARNING **: Working around gtk+ bug 423484.
** (gnumeric:31528): WARNING **: Down and across requested, but
printing across then down.
Unknown option --print-settings
Run 'evince --help' to see a full list of available command line
options.
I presume the first "down & across" warning is beside the point, but
the actual error is seen in "Unknown option --print-settings.
Run 'evince --help'"
It would seem gnumeric is passing the wrong options to evince, which
handles the preview, so evince is not starting and therefore no
preview appears.
I think this bug is new in gnumeric 1.7, I seem to remember preview
was recently working before the upgrade.
Drew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnumeric depends on:
ii debconf [debc 1.5.16 Debian configuration management sy
ii gconf2 2.20.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnumeric-comm 1.7.13-1 common files for Gnumeric, the GNO
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41-3 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.20.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2- 2.20.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig 2.4.2-1.4 generic font configuration library
ii libgconf2-4 2.20.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanva 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2- 1:2.20.0-3 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgoffice-0- 0.5.1-1 Document centric objects library -
ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.7-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgsf-gnome- 1.14.7-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxcomposite 1:0.3.2-1+b1 X11 Composite extension library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii procps 1:3.2.7-5 /proc file system utilities
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gnumeric recommends:
ii evince 0.8.3-1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
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Andreas J Guelzow
Some things to note:
Newer versions of evince understand the --print-settings option
Gnumeric does not pass this option to evince. We just hand-off printing
(and previewing) to Gtk. Gtk then calls the appropriate pdf viewer. WHat
is the "appropriate" previewer can be configured in
.gtkrc-2.0
located in your home directory.
The important entry is:
gtk-print-preview-command="evince --unlink-tempfile --preview %f
the above line should work for most older versions of evince. Of ocurse
you can also use other programs such as:
gtk-print-preview-command="gv %f"
or
gtk-print-preview-command="xpdf -q %f"
Note that evince is preferred since gtk creates temporary files and
--unlink-tempfile tells evince to delete them. The otehr commands will
keep those temporary pdf files around.
Andreas
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Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta