Evince does not show printers

Question

I have a problem with evince PDF-document viewer. I have a printer that is well configured with cups, and I can print PDFs from other PDF viewers such as Okular, but not with Evince. There are simply no printer listed when I want to print with Evince, only "print to a file", or "print with lpr". I can use lpr to print with evince, but I have to type the command with the options I want, which is not very practical.

I'm running Debian Testing (Stretch) with Evince 3.22.1. I tried to delete the files ~/.cups/lpoptions and ~/.config/evince/print-settings but it did not solve the problem.

Solution

I had the same issue and I couldn't print any images either with most GTK+ applications.

The latest GTK3 (3.22) requires the package gtk3-print-backends for printers to be listed in GTK3 print dialogs.

Installing that package did the trick for me.

I'm running Arch Linux.

Comments

[陈小达]

Same on arch after updating arch few days ago.

[Philip]

We should tell archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/evince to update the deps. How is it possible?

[Giuseppe Di Chiacchio]

Of course it is. Should be there between OPTIONAL dependencies in my opinion.

[Alfabravo]

Unbelievable. Also, great catch!

[Hendy]

I just added a bug report for this. It's a weird "bug" in that technically it's listed in optional deps for gtk3 and stated on the wiki. I still think it warranted a report as it's a unique case where functionality was built-in to package A and was then removed, requiring the installation of B. This should be made more obvious to the user.