Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.92) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux I have a web-site that I want to print. I select Preview to see how many pages there are. Four pages, yet the last one is useless, so I cancel and print again, this time stating to print only 1-3, yet the preview shows me four pages.
Thank you for your bug report. The way the preview works is that it is always showing the PostScript that is leaving the application, and before it is passed to the underlying print subsystem (most likely CUPS). KDEPrint provides 2 mechanisms to select pages and page ranges: <ul> <li>one is by means of CUPS (if it is used as the system's print spooler)</li> <li>the other is by piping the printjob through one or more pluggable "pre-filters</li> </ul> In the first case CUPS will then process the job and will extract the pages as you selected them. That means, the preview will *always* show all pages, and a bug would be if the <b>printer</b> printed a different set than you selected. In the second case, the output first goes through the "Page Selection/Ordering" pre-filter (that must be correctly selected and configured [*]) and then to the preview program. That means, the preview *should* here show exactly the pages you selected. Which of the two options did you use? ---- I agree that the two different options for page selections probably arent obvious to the user. I will look into the possibility to explain this in a future revision of the WhatsThis help for the preview. Please report back. If I dont hear back from you about this within 2 weeks this bug report may be closed as WONTFIX or INVALID. Cheers, Kurt -------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] To setup the "Page Selection/Ordering" pre-filter, * click "Properties" * select the right-most tab ("Filters") * select the "Page Selection/Ordering" pre-filter (via the "Funnel" icon) * configure the filter (via the "Wrench" icon) * select "Page Range" * type in your selection like this: "3,5-8,13,15,22-24" * click "OK" * enable checkbox "Preview" in kprinter main dialog view * click "Print" The preview should popup and show only the pages you selected. Works for me on KDE 3.2.1, 3.3.4 and 3.4beta2.
I forgot to explain: * The first option (CUPS is doing the page selection, and you wont see the selection in the preview) is realized by entering the desired page numbers into the "Range" line edit on the "Copies" tab of the main kprinter dialog. To see the "Copies" tab at all, you may have to click the "Options >>>" button on the lower left corner of the main dialog.
UNCONFIRMED (batch reassigning messed this)
Original reporter didn't provide details as requested.
Closing old Resolved status bug.