Okular printing

[Till Maas]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Till Maas wrote:
> > Yes, the printing from okular, e.g. this bug report:
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181290
> 
> Hmmm, that's an interesting one…

Btw. the Fedora bug report is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509645

> > Basically I miss every difference in the UI behaviour between kprinter
> > and the printing dialog in okular. E.g. the dialog does not remember to
> > always show the options and it is not possible to save the several
> > complex options that I want to use, e.g. how many pages per sheet, how
> > to duplex, etc. This made me already create a lot of wasted prints.
> 
> For saving options, you can now set the printer defaults at CUPS level, Qt 
> will pick them up now (we fixed that in our KDE 4.4 update set). That said, 
> I'm not sure Okular supports all of them due to the FilePrinter hack it's 
> using.

The problem is not to store the systems default, but to save the options
while okular is open. KPDF supported to save the settings for as long as
it is running, so several documents could be printed with the same
options. But okular does not even remember that I want to see the
options in the printing dialog. And even if I select and option, print,
and then open the dialog again, the option is reset. And as soon as one
made a mistake with one option, e.g. forgetting to set or reset
duplexing, but also wanting to have 4 pages per sheet, then there is a
high probability that after fixing the duplex setting, one forgets to
set the amount of pages per sheet again. Especially if one has to walk
to the printer to get the result.

Another problem seems to be that okular processes the PDF to PS itself
instead of just sending the file to cups to process it. This once slowed
down printing with a certain printer down by a factor of 4 or 5 iirc.

> But this is kinda OT for this list and we have strayed far far away from the 
> original subject of this thread. If you want to discuss this further, please 
> use the fedora-kde list. :-)

Ok, done. So can we get kpdf back in Fedora, too? :-)

Regards
Till
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