[Bug 394266] [NEW] Very bad quality from evince printing pages which have been printed to pdf using firefox

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Using karmic and firefox-3.0, I printed a pdf of the following web page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgroup

(permanent link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subgroup&oldid=296077109)

If I print this pdf with evince (even printing to a pdf file) I get
terrible quality and pages are converted to images. If I print it with
okular, I get a good quality document, however a mathematical formula is
obscured (bottom of page 3). In evince the formula is visible.

Here is the pdf printed from firefox:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28547865/groups.pdf

The reprint from evince:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28547874/a.pdf

The reprint from Okular:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28547885/b.pdf

On this other bug report:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/150187 Adrian
Johnson explained:

The reason pages 1 and 4 of your PDF are printed as a bitmap are:

- Firefox is using cairo operators that are not natively supported by
PDF on page 1 and 4. I don't think there is any reason that Firefox
needs to use anything other than CAIRO_OPERATOR_OVER when printing so I
consider this a bug in Firefox.

- As a result cairo embeds a fallback image in the PDF for the region
drawn with operators not supported by PDF. But the bounding box of the
PDF pattern used to draw the fallback image is set to the page size
instead of the image size. This is a bug in cairo.

- When poppler is used to print the PDF via the cairo backend the image
becomes a full page image due to the pattern bounding box being set to
the page size.

** Affects: poppler
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
         Status: Triaged

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Very bad quality from evince printing pages which have been printed to pdf using firefox
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394266
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