Hello All,

when printing pdf files opened with Evince Document Viewer, print options like
paper size and orientation are greyed out. I have this with all printers.

I never noticed this, until our company wanted to buy a new big printer and I went out to a Kyocera shop to test a machine. A member of the technical staff showed up with an Ubuntu machine. He could change al the options in the Evince print dialog.

So my question is not to help me switch to Ubuntu. :-)

How can I fix this in Centos6? Could this be related to cups? Should I update cups or Evince?

Many thanks, Johan

Does this apply to all PDF documents, or just particular PDF documents?
Just wanting to eliminate this scenario:
https://help.gnome.org/users/evince/...oprint.html.en

Does this just affect evince or do other applications behave like this?

A quick search turned up this thread:

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewto...p?f=13&t=46792

Hello ferrari,

thanks for the reply.

I checked the dconf/gconf editor, that part seems ok.
I have the same behaviour in Eye of Gnome, some options are greyed out as well.
The thing is, it didn't bother me, until we purchased two Kyocera printers. Now we can't print some pdf files.
We can print those same files from other ( Brother ) printers.
I thought this might be related to the greyed-out problem.

The other threat on the Centos forum, that is me. As you can see, I had no replies.
So I tried qpdfview, but I cannot get it to print more than one copy of a file with it. Not on any printer.

What does seem to work is Okular. But I would prefer using Evince.

Greetings, Johan

FWIW, I've just been participating in another thread related to PDF-printing with Centos 6.X

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...df-4175524186/

Although, you describe a slightly different issue, it may be related to the printer driver in question, since CUPS changed to using PDF files as its native format, which impacts on the printing work-flow associated with certain applications and drivers. Better explained here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...820/comments/9

If you examine the PPD files (in /etc/cups/ppd) corresponding to the Kyocera and Brother printers, you'll see a '*cupsFilter' entry that describes the workflow. For example,my Brother printer has
As far as Evince is concerned, it may well be down to the version being used, since many distros are using far newer versions of CUPS, DE's, and applications, than Centos (by design). So, some of these issues have been reported a few years earlier, by those using other distros.

Hello Ferrari,

thanks again for helping me out.

I did not attempt to adapt the pdd file.
I did a lot more googling but found no clues.
I tested this in Centos7, here the same files do print with Evince. I should say Atril, because on Centos7 I use Mate.
And nothing is greyed out.

I installed Adobe Reader for the people who will use the Kyocera printer.

So I guess this would have worked on a "newer" distro. But this problem is a small price because
Centos6 works very well, both on our servers and laptops.

Greetings, Johan

No, I wasn't suggesting that the .ppd file(s) need editing. I was trying to illustrate that with the changes to the way CUPS processes jobs, some applications (eg Evince and some other GTK apps), and also some print drivers would behave like this.

As I suspected it would.