Bug 185636

Summary:	More printing options for page control
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Jared Harder <jared.harder>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alexngould, c.schwarzgruber.cs, freddy2_es, jaak, kde, lopezibanez, m.weghorn, neteler, Oliver, rayanAyar, sb56637, spatz, stanislav.horacek, vasilbelarus
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Print options for page set

Description Jared Harder 2009-02-26 18:50:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I would like to propose the inclusion of some basic printing options.  They are, in no particular order:

- Print a multiple page range.  For example, I can type "1-4,6-10", instead of the basic "n to m" option present right now.
- Print odd or even pages.  There is no option (that I have found) that allow the printing of only odd or even pages.  This is especially time consuming to have to manually duplex a long document when the printer does not have the native function.

I suppose those are the big ones right now.

Thanks!

Comment 1 neteler@gmail.com 2009-12-12 20:17:20 UTC

Yes, it would be a great help to have more printing options. One more is

- "print current page" as a clickable entry (rather than manually entering the page number)

thanks

Comment 2 neteler@gmail.com 2009-12-12 20:21:11 UTC

For the duplex part, see also bug #186720

Comment 3 EP 2012-06-03 22:08:31 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 Vasil Yakauleu 2012-10-03 11:54:41 UTC

KDE 4.9.2 already exists, but this bug is still actual.
I completely agree about this functions:
- Print a multiple page range. For example, I can type "1-4,6-10"
- Print odd or even pages.

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2012-10-03 18:34:32 UTC

*** Bug 259383 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 S 2013-03-21 14:22:19 UTC

KDE 4.10.1, printing odd/even pages seems to be available now, but still no simple and intuitive way to print a range of pages.

Comment 7 Manuel López-Ibáñez 2013-06-05 08:45:44 UTC

This seems to be a limitation of the KDE4 printing dialog rather than okular. It seems there is some way to enable a page ranges interface:  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208736#c6 but it is not enabled by default. Interestingly, the print dialog of Firefox in Kubuntu does support this.

See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190308 for a different interface to achieve the same thing.

Comment 8 Jaak Ristioja 2017-07-02 11:28:40 UTC

(In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #7)
> It seems there is some way to enable a page ranges interface: 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208736#c6 but it is not enabled by
> default.

Nothing in that bug report seems to indicate that one can work around this as a user.

Comment 9 Laura David Hurka 2019-06-08 22:51:25 UTC

Created attachment 120708 [details]
Print options for page set

This seems to be fixed now. 

KDE Frameworks 5.58
Qt 5.12.0
Okular 1.7.1

Comment 10 Michael Weghorn 2019-06-12 09:47:03 UTC

(In reply to David Hurka from comment #9)
> Created attachment 120708 [details]
> Print options for page set
> 
> This seems to be fixed now. 
> 
> KDE Frameworks 5.58
> Qt 5.12.0
> Okular 1.7.1

Yes, it's been implemented in the Qt print dialog, s. https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/215390 .