Bug 130832

Summary:	[KDE4] kghostview as print preview module cannot print "marked pages only"
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeprint	Reporter:	Janet <bugzilla>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	esigra, jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
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Description Janet 2006-07-14 17:19:22 UTC

Version:           0.20 (using KDE 3.5.3, Debian Package 4:3.5.3-1 (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.16.16-kanotix-1

It seems as if kghostview also is used as print preview module for other KDE applications. When I use the stand-alone kghostview I can mark several pages and then only those selected pages are printed. But when I mark pages in a print preview (kmail e.g.) those selections are ignored and the whole document gets printed. I didn't figure out any use for the marking of pages in the print preview module. Is there any? If not those boxes should be removed to avoid confusion. But the better way would be to fix the printing of selected pages for it is a very useful feature.

Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-12 23:37:46 UTC

This is probably a KDEPrint bug.

We use kghostview as previewer of PostScript files (though users are able to set up another application for that).

Probably we do just use it "as is". Ghostview does get the file for previewing, but we don't care (yet?) for what the user marked in the preview. (We assume the user does select the pages to be printed in the dialog).

I don't know if it is possible to use kghostscript in a way that hides the marking of pages. But you are right: once users did change their mind and select different pages in the kghostscript preview for printing, we should try to respect that.

Sigh... printing is *soo* complicated.

We need to look into this...

Comment 2 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-01-13 03:49:16 UTC

Duplicate of bug 59718. Please transfer your votes there, if you care.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59718 ***

Comment 3 Michael Goffioul 2007-01-16 09:47:22 UTC

This is a problem with the kghostview component, which do not expose the required API to configure it properly and interact with it. I tried to collaborate with kghostview developers years ago on that problem, but it didn't go far.

AFAIK, kghostview is meant to be deprecated, maybe it would be a good thing to use another (well-supported) viewer component and increase its usability from the kdeprint size (like selecting the pages to be printed and so on).

Comment 4 John Layt 2008-12-31 20:15:19 UTC

Closing old Resolved status bug.