Re: Print Preview

[Chris Dunn <chris iccqs com>]

On 02/04/2020 13:47, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:

> El dj. 02 de 04 de 2020 a les 12:48 -0500, en/na Chris Dunn va
> escriure:
> > Good day.
> >
> > I'm a long-time user, currently running Gnumeric 1.12.46 on Debian
> > Sid.
> >
> > For some reason unknown, File / Print Preview and the Print Preview
> > button have stopped working for me in the last few days. Printing
> > including "Print to File" do not seem to be affected, just the
> > preview.
> >
> > When the Print Preview button is pressed there is the flash of a
> > small
> > window on the screen then nothing. There does appear to be some text
> > in
> > this transient window but it doesn't stay up long enough to see what
> > is
> > there.
>
> That window just says "preparing to preview", you could freeze it by
> trying to print a very big, more than 1000 pages preview, it will popup
> an areyousure window, so you could see the underlaying window that is
> asking that.

Thanks for this. It set me off on a path to a solution. Not having any 
docs as large as you suggested to hand, I took your word for the behaviour.

Together with your mention of evince it did stir my memory to a previous 
similar situation where an application was trying to write a file to 
/tmp, but because of my inadequate root partition size there was no 
space for the file, and the application failed. Sure enough it seems 
that evince writes the "print preview" file as a .pdf to /tmp, and then 
deletes it when the print preview screen is closed. My problem seems 
likely to have been caused by this situation, as my root partition was 
showing up as 97% full.

Having now doubled the size of my root partition, and set a cron script 
to let me know if it is getting close to full, all seems to be working 
well, and I believe I should not need to trouble the list again with my 
own failings. At least on this subject.

Thanks and apologies to you, and to Jean Brefort for taking time to 
respond to my un-necessary post.

> > 1. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
>
> Works fine here, also Debian Sid but not updated regularly
>
> > 2. Does anyone have any suggestion as to where I can start looking
> > for a
> > solution.
>
> Looking at the differences on pstree when there is a preview than when
> there is none, I'd investigate on the side of evince/evince-previewer
>
>   
> > Thanks.
> HTH
> Pere

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