Bug 758056

Summary: hplip doesn't print text in documents including images
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1 Reporter: James Ogley <riggwelter>
Component: PrintingAssignee: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 12.1   
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Description James Ogley 2012-04-19 14:25:22 UTC
$SUMMARY sort of says it all.  If I have a document (tested this in LibreOffice Writer, Abiword and LO-generated PDF in Okular) with just text, it prints fine.

If I include an image, only the image is printed.

I have one document with an image in the background and where the text goes over the image, it appears as white over the image.

Tried with both hpijs and hpcups drivers on two different HP printers.
Comment 1 Johannes Meixner 2012-04-19 14:42:48 UTC
Looks a bit like bnc#753897.

Perhaps this is an issue in Ghostscript.

To find out whether or not the root cause is Ghostscript,
please upgrade to the latest Ghostscript version 9.05.

Plain upstream Ghostscript 9.05 without any patch
is available as ready-made RPMs for various openSUSE
and Suse Linux Enterprise versions via the "Printing"
development project in the openSUSE build service
for 32-bit i586 and 64-bit x86_64 architecture.

E.g. for openSUSE 12.1 from this direct URL
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_12.1/
as packages "ghostscript" and "ghostscript-x11".

Carefully read in general
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Printing
and in particular
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=ghostscript&project=Printing

Please report whether or not it works with Ghostscript 9.05.

See also bnc#735824
"Ghostscript: Package clean-up and upgrade to latest stable release"
Comment 2 James Ogley 2012-04-19 15:34:37 UTC
That resolved it - looks like a dupe of bnc#735824 then (especially https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c2 - black text rendered white).

However, just to let you know, I had to install them with --nodeps:

capybara:/home/users/ogley/Desktop # rpm -Uvh ghostscript-*rpm
warning: ghostscript-9.05-10.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98c4529d: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
        ghostscript-library < 9.05-10.1 conflicts with ghostscript-x11-9.05-10.1.x86_64
        ghostscript-library > 9.05-10.1 conflicts with ghostscript-x11-9.05-10.1.x86_64

capybara:/home/users/ogley/Desktop # rpm -qp --provides ghostscript-9.05-10.1.x86_64.rpm 
warning: ghostscript-9.05-10.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98c4529d: NOKEY
config(ghostscript) = 9.05-10.1
ghostscript-library = 9.05

capybara:/home/users/ogley/Desktop # rpm -qp --requires ghostscript-x11-9.05-10.1.x86_64.rpm 
warning: ghostscript-x11-9.05-10.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98c4529d: NOKEY
ghostscript = 9.05-10.1
Comment 3 James Ogley 2012-04-19 15:37:38 UTC
Closing as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 735824 ***