[Evolution] Printing broken in Evolution/Debian?

[Chris Ramsden <chris ramsden gmail com>]

I wanted to save an email message as a pdf. 

When I try to print from Evolution to the default "print to file" option, it fails with this message:

The printer replied “Error opening file “/home/chris/Documents/20220714205348_@RISK:_The_Consensus_Security_Vulnerability_Alert:_Vol._22,_Num._28.pdf”: No such file or directory”.

The actual text has two unprintable characters following each of the â characters. In this environment, an unprintable character is shown as a glyph depicting a 2x2 grid filled with ones and noughts. 

Same if the target is postscript or svg (though I have to say I don't know what the svg option would do!)

I installed a virtual PDF printer in CUPS, which normally isn't necessary. When I print to that, the error message in Evo is 'The printer replied “Printer not found”.'

Other programs print successfully to both of these printers. I can print the same message from an alternative email client. Every message I have tried to print in Evo fails in the same way.

And finally, I tried printing to a real printer.