RE: Issue with PDF printing via cairo library – Proposed Patch

[Vladimir Gribko]

Hello Tim-Phillip and Luca Bacci,

Thank you very much for your assistance!

Following your advices I was able to create a merge request:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/639

I will await the Cairo team’s decision regarding it.
Please let me know if there’s anything else you need from my side.

Best regards,
Vladimir

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Subject: Re: Issue with PDF printing via cairo library – Proposed Patch

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Hi,

Due to an influx of spam user accounts on GitLab are restricted by default and can't fork projects, which is needed to create a Merge Request.

Please file an issue and fill in the User Verification template<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/new?issuable_template=User%20verification> in order to get full access. Sorry for the hassle, and thanks for your understanding.

Cheers
 Tim

On Fri, 2025-07-25 at 13:32 +0000, Vladimir Gribko wrote:
Hello Luca Bacci,

Thank you for reviewing the proposed changes.

Today, I attempted to create a merge request but encountered an issue:
I logged into gitlab.freedesktop.org using my GitHub account (vladgrind) and tried to fork the Cairo repository into my projects.
However, I received the following warning:

"Limit reached. You cannot create projects in your personal namespace. Contact your GitLab administrator."

Could you please advise on how to proceed? Alternatively, would it be possible for one of the Cairo developers to add the changes into their branch for merging?

Thank you very much for your support.

Best regards,
Vladimir.

From: Luca Bacci <luca.bacci982 at gmail.com<mailto:luca.bacci982 at gmail.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 9:30 AM
To: Vladimir Gribko <Vladimir.Gribko at cib.de<mailto:Vladimir.Gribko at cib.de>>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with PDF printing via cairo library – Proposed Patch

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Thanks, this looks like a sensible change. Could you open a Merge Request athttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests?

Best Regards,
Luca

Il giorno mar 22 lug 2025 alle ore 16:38 Vladimir Gribko <Vladimir.Gribko at cib.de<mailto:Vladimir.Gribko at cib.de>> ha scritto:
Hello cairo developers,

I am a C++ developer at CIB software GmbH, and we use cairo for rendering and printing PDF documents within our product, CIB pdf toolbox 2.
Recently, we encountered an issue when printing certain PDF with the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer: the output PDF appeared distorted.
We couldn't find a problem in our code, and for further testing we printed this PDF, using the well-known open-source utility pdftocairo:

> pdftocairo.exe -print -printer "Microsoft Print to PDF" input.pdf output.pdf

We observed the same result with pdftocairo and therefore suspected a problem in the cairo code.

Upon analyzing the problem, we identified two issues within the function _cairo_win32_printing_surface_paint_recording_pattern():

1. The use of an uninitialized variable, is_subsurface.
2. Displaced ClipPath for the pattern being printed, which leads to the distorted output.

We have developed a patch addressing these two issues and would like to propose it for inclusion in the cairo code.
Additionally, I have attached the minimized input.pdf and the distorted output.pdf obtained with pdftocairo.
So, please review and share your feedback.
Thank you for your attention.

Best regards,
Vladimir Gribko.

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